The Power Of a Rubber Duck for Developers

Know how to use this psychological trick

Fernando Doglio
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readJun 14, 2021

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woman saying “why is my code crashing? why?” to a yellow rubber duck
Original Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash, edits by Author

Ever heard the term rubber duck debugging? No? Well, it’s actually quite an interesting little process we have in our industry, where we speak to an inanimate object (usually a rubber duck) and by the means of the arcane, we find the solution to our current conundrum.

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