At least in my case, much of the code in the codebase I'm working on is AI generated so even if I have an accurate mental model of how everything works, I have no idea where any of it is located or named.
At least in my case, much of the code in the codebase I'm working on is AI generated so even if I have an accurate mental model of how everything works, I have no idea where any of it is located or named.
To be fair, whenever I join a pre-existing code-base [1], it's the same. I have no idea and have to map it out ;)
[1] Not AI codebases (and of course, AI code bases I guess)
I can't be the only one whose memory is so bad that I am like this in my own code base.
I seem to remember - but cannot find, even with an AI boost - someone's "law of computing" or somesuch describing the amount of time that has to pass before code you wrote is indistinguishable to you from code written by someone else. At any rate the interval is not so long.
In your own codebase you can at least run a "you simulator" to arrive at the answer fairly reliably. "Where would I have put this bit? Oh yes, of course ..."
You are not. :) my memory is disturbingly fried.