• Windex007@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

      This is mechanically similar, I agree, but I think the rubber duck is still superior.

      And, I think this should be a “lightbulb” moment for people.

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        12 hours ago

        One critical benefit of the rubber duck is that it doesn’t make things up.

        You obviously haven’t seen me rubber duck debug.

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        10 hours ago

        I disagree. The rubber duck does not propose alternatives, nor does it point out flaws.

        The flaws may be wrong, but then I have to justify it, which forces me to reconsider what I’ve written.

        It’s like having a script monkey that never took a CS class to bounce ideas off of.