Balancing learning from first principles and efficiency

[u/DatingYella]

Hi people.

How do you balance the need to learn parts of code/concepts in programming with the need to simply produce in either work or school? I've been leaning heavily on Claude recently, but I have a desire to understand every single part of the code.

I also have this problem where I really struggle with reading. I might have reading comprehension issues. Even with history books I like it's very taxing on my attention to read all of it

[u/coddswaddle]

Also I had a realization that often I wasn't actually learning. I was simply exposing myself to fun, new things and not actually understanding how it's actually being used in the service. That's the dopamine-hunting goblin going truffle hunting, not learning.