What is Rubber Duck Debugging?

How to talk to yourself like the sane person you are

Mike Cronin
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readJul 28, 2020

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When I first heard about “rubber duck debugging” where programmers talk to rubber ducks, I was sure it was hazing. I knew that when a senior dev said I should talk to the bath toy sitting on their desk, they would burst out laughing at me. But no, somehow it’s a real thing. A real, weird thing.

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