Ask HN: How to Onboard to New Domains

How are you guys onboarding to new domains while balancing the new perceived velocity gains thanks to LLMs.

For context I started a new job a few months ago, it's for a language I've never used in a product domain that I've never worked in. Both of these were originally very inciting for me as I wanted to learn more about both.

What I've struggled with is there is an elevated expectation of how quickly engineers should be finishing tasks which lessens the time I can spend noodling around with the code to understand really what's going on.

This has lead to me relying more on LLMs to catch bugs I missed or completely code a feature from scratch.

While I've tried quizzing the AI on why it did what it did I find there isn't enough friction during this process for that understanding to stick. It goes in one ear (eye) and out the other.

So I wanted to know what tips (LLM based or not) on ramping up on new domains.