--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'The AI Skill I Rely On Daily — Priscila Andre de Oliveira, Sentry' description: >- Priscila Andre de Oliveira analyzed 116 of her own Claude sessions from daily work at Sentry. 67% were comprehension. 2% were code generation. Working in a codebase with 15 years of history, around 100 PRs merged per day, and 100,000 organizations depending on it, the unlock is not generation but understanding. She built a personal skill called catch me up with six exploration modes covering architecture, conventions, feature traces, syntax, testing, and history. The loop: understand what the agent found before you let it plan and implement, because a misaligned mental model is where slop comes from. Speaker info: - https://at.linkedin.com/in/priscila-andre-de-oliveira-ab34bb24b Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction and speaker background 2:25 Sentry's engineering environment and scale 3:50 AI-driven projects at Sentry 5:48 Maintaining code quality and technical debt 7:35 The role of comprehension in software development 9:38 Analyzing AI usage patterns 10:33 The "Catch Me Up" skill architecture 12:15 Short demo of the "Catch Me Up" skill 13:56 Planning vs. implementation in AI workflows 15:26 Conclusion and key takeaways --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/li0SaBt9RDM-comprehend-first-code-later-the-ai-skill-i-rely-on-daily Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-ai-skill-i-rely-on-daily-priscila-andre-de-oliv-3bcbd0a676f1 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/the-ai-skill-i-rely-on-daily-priscila-andre-de-oliv-3bcbd0a676f1.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T13:09:12.870Z' language: null children: [] videoId: li0SaBt9RDM durationSeconds: 1025 publishedAt: '2026-05-27T17:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 596 endSeconds: 644 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=596' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 596 endSeconds: 644 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=596' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 644 endSeconds: 656 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=644' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 644 endSeconds: 656 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=644' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 489 endSeconds: 584 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=489' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 489 endSeconds: 584 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=489' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 753 endSeconds: 842 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=753' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 753 endSeconds: 842 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=753' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 842 endSeconds: 853 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=842' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 853 endSeconds: 932 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=853' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 853 endSeconds: 932 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=853' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 932 endSeconds: 946 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=932' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 946 endSeconds: 1025 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=946' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 348 endSeconds: 359 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=348' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 162 endSeconds: 231 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=162' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 243 endSeconds: 348 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=243' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 359 endSeconds: 463 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=359' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 151 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/li0SaBt9RDM?t=26' heldReason: rights --- # The AI Skill I Rely On Daily — Priscila Andre de Oliveira, Sentry Priscila Andre de Oliveira analyzed 116 of her own Claude sessions from daily work at Sentry. 67% were comprehension. 2% were code generation. Working in a codebase with 15 years of history, around 100 PRs merged per day, and 100,000 organizations depending on it, the unlock is not generation but understanding. She built a personal skill called catch me up with six exploration modes covering architecture, conventions, feature traces, syntax, testing, and history. The loop: understand what the agent found before you let it plan and implement, because a misaligned mental model is where slop comes from. Speaker info: - https://at.linkedin.com/in/priscila-andre-de-oliveira-ab34bb24b Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction and speaker background 2:25 Sentry's engineering environment and scale 3:50 AI-driven projects at Sentry 5:48 Maintaining code quality and technical debt 7:35 The role of comprehension in software development 9:38 Analyzing AI usage patterns 10:33 The "Catch Me Up" skill architecture 12:15 Short demo of the "Catch Me Up" skill 13:56 Planning vs. implementation in AI workflows 15:26 Conclusion and key takeaways --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/li0SaBt9RDM-comprehend-first-code-later-the-ai-skill-i-rely-on-daily Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-ai-skill-i-rely-on-daily-priscila-andre-de-oliv-3bcbd0a676f1 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:14 to 2:31) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (2:31 to 3:51) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (3:51 to 5:48) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (5:48 to 7:43) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (7:43 to 9:44) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (9:44 to 10:44) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (10:44 to 12:19) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (12:19 to 14:02) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (14:02 to 15:32) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 9: Document excerpt (15:32 to 17:05) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.