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Reading Code With an Assistant

Use an assistant to find your way around an unfamiliar codebase, get explanations you can trust, and predict what code does before you change it.

Lessons
6
Exercises
34
Minutes
36

Start Finding Your Way Around

  1. 1

    Finding Your Way Around

    After this lesson you can use an assistant to map an unfamiliar codebase in minutes, and know which of its answers to check by opening the file.

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    5 exercises
    5 min
  2. 2

    Explanations You Can Trust

    After this lesson you can ask for an explanation of code in a form you can check against the code, and spot when it describes what the code should do rather than what it does.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  3. 3

    Predict Before You Change

    After this lesson you can predict what code does with a given input before you or an agent changes it, so you know what a change is actually changing.

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    5 exercises
    6 min
  4. 4

    Verifying What It Tells You About Code

    After this lesson you can sort an assistant's claims about a codebase into the ones you can check in a minute and the ones you must, and do it.

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    5 exercises
    5 min
  5. 5

    Checkpoint: Reading WellCheckpoint

    Maps, explanations, predictions and checks in fresh code.

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    6 exercises
    6 min
  6. 6

    Boss: Inherit the ServiceBoss

    An unfamiliar payments service, a double-refund bug, and an assistant. Eight moves from map to a precise task.

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    8 exercises
    8 min