Stage 4 · Lesson 3 of 7
Explaining it back in your own words
Before you an AI change, explain what it does and why it works in your own words, without reading the tool's summary. Do it out loud, in a comment to yourself, or in the description. If you cannot explain a line, you do not own it yet: read the docs for that call, it in a debugger, or ask the tool questions until you can.
You are responsible for code you , and you will be the one debugging it later or defending it in review. This is also how using AI becomes learning rather than copying.
Common trapasking the tool to explain its own code and treating a fluent explanation as proof: it can explain wrong code just as confidently as right code.
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Resources for this stage
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- GuideFreeGoogle Engineering Practices
Google · Intermediate
Google's free code review guide: what reviewers look for and how to write review comments