--- title: You should all be asking way more questions | daily.dev description: An engineer argues that asking frequent, detailed questions while someone explains a plan is a crucial habit for catching misunderstandings early, especially... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: You should all be asking way more questions | daily.dev og:description: An engineer argues that asking frequent, detailed questions while someone explains a plan is a crucial habit for catching misunderstandings early, especially... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5NeIOt4Rc.png og:image:alt: You should all be asking way more questions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # You should all be asking way more questions **[sean goedecke](https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke)** · 7 min read · 7 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary An engineer argues that asking frequent, detailed questions while someone explains a plan is a crucial habit for catching misunderstandings early, especially for anyone with real responsibility for outcomes. The habit extends to working with AI coding agents like GPT-6-Astra and Claude Opus 5.5: while these models rarely make code mistakes, they frequently make design mistakes because they lack the accumulated context a human engineer would pick up over time. The author recommends peppering AI agents with clarifying questions about architecture, authentication, and dependencies, since roughly half the time such questions reveal a mistaken assumption in the model's plan. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dsuppal** · 0 upvotes > a great advice , people should do this often when they get the work done from AI AGENT **@xendk** · 0 upvotes > Good advice. Goes for code reviews too. **@elmarchavez** · 0 upvotes > Yes, this has been on my mind lately. What troubles me most is sometimes I can't bring myself to talk and ask people and colleagues about a certain area in their code. Sometimes I feel like I would damage their ego when I point out something wrong. Asking for clarification is easy for me, but asking about how they implement it and why is hard. Especially if I know more about that certain area of the code. But then again, I guess this is something I need to practice with time. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don't Outsource the Learning](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-outsource-the-learning-imeraomcp) · Addy Osmani · 266 upvotes · 19 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"You should all be asking way more questions","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc"},"datePublished":"2026-09-25T08:07:08.379Z","dateModified":"2026-09-25T08:07:24.481Z","description":"An engineer argues that asking frequent, detailed questions while someone explains a plan is a crucial habit for catching misunderstandings early, especially...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--qPvKM23u--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2009","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"sean goedecke","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"sean goedecke","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--WNgiZyDx--/f_auto,q_auto/v1765713419/logos/seangoedecke","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"career,ai-agents,architecture,leadership,claude","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"sean goedecke","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"You should all be asking way more questions"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/you-should-all-be-asking-way-more-questions-5neiot4rc","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"a great advice , people should do this often when they get the work done from AI AGENT","datePublished":"2026-09-28T18:02:23.723Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5NeIOt4Rc#c-qJZxdUE2K","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ds uppal","url":"https://daily.dev/dsuppal","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJ1UPwEt6M37OJ4HbRN_eQxkviuTeW2_7og_La2nmHIxzMylfNQ=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Good advice. Goes for code reviews too.","datePublished":"2026-09-25T10:31:08.553Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5NeIOt4Rc#c-M030YiDU8","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Thomas Fini Hansen","url":"https://daily.dev/xendk"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Yes, this has been on my mind lately. What troubles me most is sometimes I can’t bring myself to talk and ask people and colleagues about a certain area in their code. Sometimes I feel like I would damage their ego when I point out something wrong. Asking for clarification is easy for me, but asking about how they implement it and why is hard. Especially if I know more about that certain area of the code. But then again, I guess this is something I need to practice with time.","datePublished":"2026-09-25T14:58:09.000Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/5NeIOt4Rc#c-4GcQTJ3qY","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Elmar Chavez","url":"https://daily.dev/elmarchavez","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--7PjH979T--/f_auto/v1780994221/avatars/avatar_bK85rJb2OXXID2LX2wi5y?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"}}]} ```