> yet everybody who encounters a new large code base starts drawing diagrams I draw a lot of diagrams when exploring code, but they are almost never uml, becau

> yet everybody who encounters a new large code base starts drawing diagrams I draw a lot of diagrams when exploring code, but they are almost never uml, because usually I look at code searching for a particular information, and only draw what is relevant to that search with varying level of details. If I was to draw everything (no matter the format) - it would become a huge mess with signal-to-noise ratio very close to 0, at that point I might as well just read the whole codebase.