@alanonai: Engineering for Vibe Coders: Rubber Ducking Want to know one of the weirdest but most effective debugging techniques in software engineering? Talking to a rubber duck. Seriously. There’s a reason this works. Most bugs are not caused by missing information. They’re caused by unclear thinking. When you explain your code step by step out loud, your brain is forced to slow down and become precise. Suddenly you notice: “Oh wait… that state update is asynchronous.” Or: “I’m assuming the API response always has that field.” The bug was already there. You just had not fully processed it yet. And this matters even more with vibe coding and AI generated code. AI can generate huge amounts of code quickly, but if you cannot explain what the code is doing and why it exists, you probably should not trust it in production. One of the best habits you can build is this: Before asking AI for a fix, explain the problem yourself first. A lot of the time, you solve it halfway through the explanation. Link in comments #ai #vibecoding #coding #programming #rubberduck

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