[sorobahn]

I've had this same thought. Given humans were the primary authors of code, the tooling has optimized for writing (IDEs, Text Editors, LSPs, etc). Even though we all know we read more code than write, the tooling space for reading code is rather small, I can only think of stuff like SourceGraph and Github. I'm sure big companies have internal tooling for this, but even then I feel the best experience exploring a single repo today is your EDITor.

I'm also experimenting with building a platform that is optimal for reading code particularly distributed systems since they have many non-local dependencies and are harder to explore locally in code editors/viewers. I def fall in the camp that current AI tools can probably help us understand our systems better than they can contribute code to them. One win of using AI to help us analyze large codebases is that if they can extract useful things for us, they can also extract useful things for their own agentic loops.

Let me know if you wanna chat more about this, would love to bounce some ideas/contribute!

[terpimost]

I would like to chat more about it. Let’s connect (vladkorobov.com)