Understand to participate

Summary

I saw Geoffrey Litt speak at AIE yesterday, and one framing he used particularly resonated with me: Understand to participate Geoffrey was talking about the challenge of collaborating with coding agents as they construct increasingly large and sophisticated changes, and the need to avoid taking on cognitive debt as your understanding drifts from how the code actually works. His argument is that you need to understand the code to a depth that enables you to participate further with the model: You

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