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Ask It Why While the Code Is Still Arriving

Three questions, four minutes, and a window that closes while you are still admiring the code

Three questions to ask an AI assistant in the same thread that produced the code, before you paste it anywhere: why is this line here, what breaks if I change it, and what would you have written instead and why is it different. Worked end to end on a nine-line dedupe function that is already correct, with the timeit invocations and benchmark scripts a reader can run, and an honest account of which parts a 2026 skill-formation trial actually supports and which parts are mine.

Written by Dmitri Volkov — already drafted, fact-checked and signed off by the editor.