I would have checked that, but it’s all too plausible.

100%, we’re doing human and automated reviews on the code changes, and the code explanation is just the first step of several.

you have to be there when the code was written and went through the various iterations.

Well, we don’t have that. We’re mostly dealing with other people’s mistakes and tech debt. We have messy things like nested stored procedures.

If all we get is some high level documentation of how components interact I’m happy. From there we can start splitting off the useful chunks for human review.

No, that started happening more to Millennial kids. The whole Satanic Panic stranger danger didn’t really kick off until the 80s, by then most gen Xers would be driving.

I’m in software and we’re experimenting with using it for certain kinds of development work, especially simpler things like fixing identified vulnerabilities.

We also have a pilot started to see if one can explain and document an old code base no one knows anymore.

I’ve been having the same problem. I’d love a drm free e-reader, but even if I found one finding drm free content is not easy.

I’m just buying analog books now. Less convenient in some ways, but at least I know what I’m getting.