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One of the dangers of delegating more and more work to AI coding harnesses is that it is easy to fall in the trap of turning your brain off. Even as I stay engaged with the problem solving and architectural decision, I find myself having fewer TIL moments.

To push back against that, I've added a skill to my claude code setup called /teach-me. Here is the prompt I used to generate it:

Can you create a Claude skill called "teach me" that looks over what was just implemented in the session or on the current branch and finds some interesting aspect of the implementation to generalize into a teaching moment. Often this will be some aspect of the programming language or framework or library or tech stack. Other times it will be a higher-level concept like an architectural or security or a11y concept.

The idea behind this is that I'd like to continue to find ways to learn from the software I am building. This is another way for me to engage with the implementation, to think critically about it, and to learn a new concept from what was built.