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by godshatter 42 days ago
I'd suggest going the route of having Claude teach you what you need to know. How do I uppercase this string? What's the best way to tackle this problem? Is there a standard way to do this thing? Then you learn along the way. You don't have to use it as a search engine, just ask it what you need to know in the moment. It will shake it's token chains and give you something that's useful, especially for a beginner in the language. This way you can implement your plan of growing your skills and then starting to delegate to it later.

I've been doing this, and it's a nice balance for me. Having Claude code things when you don't know how to evaluate it's code seems like madness to me, but I guess I'm in the minority on this.

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> How do I uppercase this string? What's the best way to tackle this problem? Is there a standard way to do this thing?

I strongly believe that it's better to just take a couple week of slow times and read a good book about the technical matter you're dealing with. Having bite sized answers isn't a good way to be proficient.

No, and if you aren't going through mental effort, your brain isn't learning. It's just being briefly entertained by the information. You need practice and association building to actually build knowledge and skill.