I can’t really read large chunks of code but for me code is less a collection of words and more interconnects between concepts plus processes that allow them to

I can’t really read large chunks of code but for me code is less a collection of words and more interconnects between concepts plus processes that allow them to communicate. I don’t need to read it as much as think about what the things are and what they should do. I remember doing this with some networking code a few years ago and thinking of how I wanted to structure different datagrams and which parts of the system would be responsible for creating and processing them. It had less to do with waking up and copying everything word for word and more to do with thinking of “put this function into this module which should do this kind of thing, then hook a callback to it from this function”, etc.