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Using AI as a Smarter Rubber Duck
Explain your bug to Claude as if it were a coworker; the act of writing it out plus AI questions usually finds the issue.
Lesson map
What this lesson covers
Learning path
The main moves in order
- 1The big idea
- 2rubber duck
- 3clarifying questions
- 4debugging
Concept cluster
Terms to connect while reading
Section 1
The big idea
talking through a bug to a thoughtful listener works whether the listener is human or AI
Some examples
- Describing what the code should do
- Explaining what it actually does
- Letting Claude ask you 3 clarifying questions
Try it!
Open your favorite AI tool and try one of the examples above. Pick the one that matches what you are actually working on this week. Spend 10 minutes, no more. Notice what worked and what did not — that's the real lesson.
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