Engineer's favorite learning mode: PDF in Claude Desktop plus a code implementation
round · x · 2026-10-25
A developer shares his current favorite learning workflow: keep a book/paper PDF open in Claude Desktop's browser pane, highlight passages and ask Claude questions directly, while running an implementation of the idea being read alongside so he can play with it immediately — immediacy in both ideas and intuition.
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