Comment by catlifeonmars

I think what’s missing here is you should start by reading the RFCs. RFCs tend to be pretty succinct so I’m not really sure what a summarization is buying you there except leaving out important details.

(One thing that might be useful is use the LLM as a search engine to find the relevant RFCs since sometimes it’s hard to find all of the applicable ones if you don’t know the names of them already.)

I really can’t stress this enough: read the RFCs from end to end. Then read through the code of some reference implementations. Draw a sequence diagram. Don’t have the LLM generate one for you, the point is to internalize the design you’re trying to implement against.

By this time you should start spotting bugs or discrepancies between the specs and implementations in the wild. That’s a good sign. It means you’re learning