Rubber-duck debugging got complicated when the duck learned to open PRs
gethackteam · x · 2026-10-29
A wry AI-community quip: rubber-duck debugging used to mean explaining your code line by line to a silent duck — until the duck learned to open pull requests on its own, poking fun at how coding agents have gone from passive listeners to actively submitting code changes.
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