[msteffen]

A lot of this is about knowledge debt if I’m reading it correctly (people not knowing things that they should know, or knowing the wrong things). In my last few jobs, I’ve maintained an Anki deck about facts relevant to my job (who certain people are, how certain systems work, details of the programming languages we use, etc.)

I’ve started kind of a funny rule, which is that when I make a change now, I can use Claude or not. But if I use Claude, some cards have to go into the deck. Both about how the implementation works, and also about anything within the implementation I didn’t know about. It does force you to double-check things before committing them to memory.