Let's be honest. We don't read code anymore.
AI writes it. We skim it. We ship it. Maybe we glance at the diff in a PR review, maybe we don't. The era of reading every line of code in your codebase is over, and pretending otherwise is just performat...
You're dropped into a 200,000-line codebase. No documentation. The original author left six months ago. Your task: fix a bug in the checkout flow by Friday.
Where do you even start?
Most developers default to reading code top-to-bottom, starting wi...