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rubber duck debugging

noun

Etymology

From a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer (1999).

Definitions

  1. The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an…

    The practice in which a programmer attempts to solve a bug by explaining their code to an inanimate object, such as a rubber duck.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rubber duck debugging. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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