[Brandon0]

I do this a lot too. In fact more often than not I end up not posting the question because either I solve the problem or I think of a possible solution I should go try first. I think we should start calling it Digital Rubber Ducking.

[hfsktr]

I am looking for an excuse to make digitalrubberduck(y/ie).com

If I was a bit more clever I feel like there is a use there.

[tekromancr]

Just make a programming themed chatterbot,drop some ads (If you are so inclined), and you are golden! Someone posted a plugin for IntelliJ that allows you to do just that. I would use a web based one of it existed.

[danohuiginn]

I have occasionally used eliza for this (the basic chatbot in emacs and elsewhere). I'm sure with a bit of tuning you could make a debugging-centred variant of it.

[tekromancr]

What do the Unit Tests say?

Have you tried running a debugger and stepping through the code?

Hmm, go on.

Wait a sec, can you reexplain that last bit?