My Favorite Way to Learn a New Codebase

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I often have to learn new codebases, so I figured I'd share how I actually do it after years of chaos. And now that I have a bit of a method to my madness, hopping into an existing 100k+ line codebase is more so organized chaos.

0:00 overview
0:58 read the docs
3:42 poke around the codebase
4:12 make docs with augment code
5:26 use the software
6:02 quick recap
6:15 what code does a specific thing (a user interaction)
7:29 ask augment code to explain
8:55 mental model
9:08 official augment code integration
10:24 have teammates assign you tasks
11:05 if no teammates, have augment code make a task for you
12:28 write tests for the codebase
12:43 recap
12:58 pair programming
14:16 take notes
14:41 don’t only casually learn the codebase
15:26 rinse and repeat
16:26 contribute to docs
16:48 understand the domain
17:30 understand why we’re building something and completing a specific task
17:51 teach it

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