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by qingcharles 228 days ago
I was lead dev once and the unofficial "rubber duck." I'd always get called over when someone was stuck on a thorny problem, lean over their shoulder and ask them to explain it and it was always instantly "Oh! I see it now, thank you!" and I had done nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging