> Or... you could have the coding agent build it in the background for you in 15 minutes, then spend 30 minutes reading through what it did, tweaking it yourself and peppering it with questions about how it all works

I can only speak for myself, but the only way I've been able to learn things rapidly in this industry is by writing things myself: even rote re-typing of books or SO answers was enough to trigger this for me.

Just querying models and reading output doesn't seem to work for me, but that's maybe down to my particular learning style.

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simonw 14 hours ago | parent [-]

That's why I said "tweaking it yourself" - that's the point where you go beyond "just querying models and reading output".

	▲	girvo 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That hasn't been enough for me, so far in my experience. I think I'm too crusty and set in my ways after 25 years of learning programming. I have found them useful for general explanations and it's decent at finding me sources or directly answering questions about codebases/architecture (like where the @appendNode declarative mutation directive is fired in sequence for the Relay updater system), but it's code output I've not found a good teach tool for myself.