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Rubber Duck Diffusion Platform

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This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built After spending too many hours debugging small issues and somehow ending up questioning my entire worldview, I built the Rubber Duck Diffusion Platform . It is a debugging tool with one very specific flaw: it does not really want to solve your bug. Instead, it escalates it. You describe a bug. The duck asks a question back. You answer sincerely. The duck responds with a deeper, stranger, more abstract question. Eventually, the original incident becomes a small detail inside a much larger emotional and philosophical process. So it is useless. Unfortunately, it is also just useful enough to be annoying. A typical session looks something like this: Bug report: Users are redirected back to /login after successful authentication. Duck: When you say it "doesn't work", what does working even mean to you? You: The session should persist after login. Duck: If the system behaves consistently against your wishes, which one of you

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