I've had this same thought that it would be nice to have an AI rubber ducky to bounce ideas off of while pair programming (so that you don't sound dumb to your coworkers & waste their time).
This is my first comment so I'm not sure how to do this but I made a BYO-API key VSCode extension that uses the OpenAI realtime API so you can have interactive voice conversations with a rubber ducky. I've been meaning to create a Show HN post about it but your comment got me excited!
In the future I want to build features to help people communicate their bugs / what strategies they've tried to fix them. If I can pull it off it would be cool if the AI ducky had a cursor that it could point and navigate to stuff as well.
Please let me know if you find it useful https://akshaytrikha.github.io/deep-learning/2025/05/23/duck...