I have found that learning a bit how to read assembly code (for reverse engineering) actually helps your "reading code skill". It's practically the same thing e

I have found that learning a bit how to read assembly code (for reverse engineering) actually helps your "reading code skill". It's practically the same thing except 1000 times worse: the dissassembled/decompiled code has absolutely no syntax sugaring of any kind, so you have to rely on strictly your experience and pattern matching to be able to efficiently guess what this snippet is trying to do. If you can do that, you can probably read the most awful of (regular) codebases.