There has never been a more important time to know what your code does and how it works.
It’s no longer about knowing more than the other person who sits beside you. That competition is over; there are systems out there that will run circles around you.
It’s about knowing the context of what your code does, what it talks to, what it interfaces with, and why it retrieves data in a certain way.
Everyone is going to AI for answers, and the best piece of information that you can add that AI cannot is the context to your code.
Don’t mystify it.
Don’t make it sound like magic.
Don’t overcomplicate.
Explain it, keep it simple, relate it to what the people are asking for.
Understanding the codebase and context for why things were written is going to keep growing in importance over the coming months and years.