I am very code literate, but depending on the size of the codebase and how much smoke and mirrors are used, I might take longer to grok how things are interconn

I am very code literate, but depending on the size of the codebase and how much smoke and mirrors are used, I might take longer to grok how things are interconnected by reading the code than it would take me if someone gave an high level overview in a paragraph or two.