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by d4rkp4ttern 30 days ago
In the context of coding agents, one thing I find surprisingly useful is this - rather than have the code-agent explain to me what it did and why, I have it quiz me Socratic-style: it presents a scenario or problem, and asks me why a certain idea would not work. It forces me put effort into thinking it through, and even if I answer wrong, it avoids giving away the answer and persists in drilling down with further questions, until I eventually arrive at the answer. This type of effortful thinking likely helps both learning and retention. I find the frontier LLMs very good at this type of quizzing. I made this Socratic Quiz as part of my suite of plugins for Claude-Code or Codex:

https://pchalasani.github.io/claude-code-tools/plugins-detai...