Deliberate code reading clubs especially in the way the author describes it is a great idea; it does seem like a rare gift to be able to dive into someone else’

Deliberate code reading clubs especially in the way the author describes it is a great idea; it does seem like a rare gift to be able to dive into someone else’s (often not well structured) code and figure out how it works. One caveat is that in the end, especially for poorly designed code, there’s only so much you can mitigate or train someone on the fundamental requirement- how big a mental model can you instantaneously form about a new codebase? I’m not sure how much you can train someone to increase this metric.