Thank you for writing exactly why people who complain about LLMs making it harder to understand what’s going on are so off. Nothing helps more than asking LLMs to tell you exactly what’s going on! They are insanely good at that. I wrote the plugin system in my product, but many people added to it over a decade and today I have only high level knowledge of it. But if I need to know something about a very specific part of it, I ask Claude and now I know exactly what I needed to know. I could even write the code by hand now, and sometimes I do for the fun of it, but Claude has just explained to me, so it also knows exactly how to do it so why not let it do it?? I can understand as much as I need to by reading the code , asking questions, carefully analyzing the tests, much more than I would if I had needed to focus on every single detail that is irrelevant to the task. Sometimes I even do some minor refactoring just to try and feel like I’m “inside” the code as I used to. But I know I will likely be out of the loop again in 3 or 4 years, as I just can’t remember everything I ever did. But now I have a LLM ready to help me get into it again whenever needed again.