Hello, TL;DR: I can’t focus on reading, Claude talk too much, I have a bottleneck in understanding my work. I’m looking for a way to improve my understanding with using AI. I’m software engineer since 9 years and I never really had the opportunity to work actively with AI. I have joined a company 4 months ago and we have access to Claude code. I’m trying to learning it and use it as often as possible but I’m really struggling to make it efficient for me. My main problem is I can’t focus on reading. In my entire life I have always struggled to focus on reading and it’s worst as I’m getting old. To give you some example, on League of Legend when a spell explanation is longer than 5 lines I just give up reading it and just use the spell to see what it does. I know this not Claude fault and it’s an handicap in lot of things but I have always succeeded to manage myself with it. But now my team is heavily using AI in everything (Task creation, PR comment, email, documentation, etc …) and Claude write really a lot. And, even if English is not my mother tongue, I often have the feeling that the sentences are weird or unnatural making it even more difficult to read. So in fact adding Claude to my process just made me really inefficient at my work. I have to read really long stories, often 200 or 300 lines, with too many details while before it was manageable because it was 10 times smaller. Then when I start doing my story assisted by Claude every time he wrote too much like 30 to 80 lines for each answers and if I ask him to be more concise and write less I worry that he would forget to tell me important things. And after working on my stories I have to read the long comments on my PR wrote by coworkers Claude. Because of all this frustration I don’t even read anything and throw the task to Claude, accept all his changes, I take a look a bit to be sure there is nothing totally stupid but I don’t understand anything he does and I’m doing. That’s bad. Really bad. I’m new at the company but I don’t do the effort to understand the codebase and I’m just payed to start Claude. That’s not what I want. The company is cool, coworkers too and I want to be able to participate more and understand what I’m doing while still using Claude code. So, I started to look for solution. I first looked at if ADHD people had similar problem with me. Turn out that I mostly read positive post about AI explaining how it’s helping them with ADHD. Then I found this video : Understanding is the new bottleneck — Geoffrey Litt It fits with my problem and the solutions suggested are interesting. So I created few skills to have more active interaction with Claude and the task I’m doing and pushing myself to understand what I’m doing. For example now with a skill and a hook everytime I start a new task Claude ask me questions about the task and the code affected before starting the task. I can’t start planning and coding with Claude if I didn’t answered correctly to 3 questions. This push me not be lazy and understand the task before starting. I do the same at the end end of the task but it’s less efficient because I can just commit and push on my side without being sure I understood the changes Claude made. In the video I shared Geoffrey Litt create what he calls world, a control panel for the changes but I don’t see it working for the kind of work I’m doing. But I still find it clever. I would imagine if I had infinite money, token and natural ressources I would ask Claude to create webtoon of my company and each PR would be an episode. But that’s not possible. But that’s the idea of what I’m looking for. After all this blabla, my question is, do you have any specific way to use AI to improve your understanding without losing focus or reading too much ? Thank you everyone submitted by /u/Cour4ge
Originally posted by u/Cour4ge on r/ClaudeCode