Reading code to onboard onto a new codebase sounds simple until you’re actually doing it. You start tracing a single user flow, follow a maze of dependency injections, and before you know it, you’ve opened more tabs than lines of code you'll actually end up writing, completely disconnected from the ticket on your board. In my five years as a software engineer, most recently on the Paid Ads team at Wix, I’ve had to do this quite a few times. My default approach was always the