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Oct 5, 2026 8 min

Episode 2: Why Talking to a Rubber Duck Fixes Your Code

from SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us

Mia and Leo unpack the debugging mindset: the rubber duck technique, reproducing bugs, reading error messages, divide-and-conquer with binary search, logging breadcrumbs, and breakpoints that freeze time. The developer's guide to finding bugs — plus why debugging is a life skill, not just a coding skill.

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