learning-opportunities

For everyone who thinks you can’t learn with LLMs, Dr. Cat Hicks, psychological scientist and author of the recent book “The Psychology of Software Teams[1],” who worked at Google and founded the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, has written two skills called learning-opportunities[2] and learning-goal[3] that use validated learning science to help you learn while using LLMs. Cat also has an awesome podcast with her wife, Ashley Juavinett, Phd, called Change, Technically.[4] I encourage everyone to check out her work! She’s dedicated her life to helping software developers get the support they need inside organizations to be seen as humans, not just robots. 1: https://www.drcathicks.com#book 2: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities 3: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-goal 4: https://www.changetechnically.fyi

For a somewhat hybrid approach here, have a look at https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities — the idea is to be used during “productive work” (so it’s not purely learning-oriented as with your repo here), and to interject as you work to ensure that you learn related concepts as you go.

There are a few examples here: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities/blob/ma... As I understand, this skill is intended to understand AI-generated code and potentially reduce skill atrophy. So it asks the agent to pause after important milestones (eg: created a file, changed db schema etc ) and ask the user questions about how they would do it.