How I'm using ASTs and Gemini to solve the "Codebase Onboarding" problem 🧠

How I'm using ASTs and Gemini to solve the "Codebase Onboarding" problem 🧠

Hi everyone! 👋 I’m Tara, a Senior Software Engineer and Consultant. Over the years, I've jumped between a lot of different codebases. Every time I join a new project, I notice the exact same problem: it takes new engineers 3 to 6 months to truly understand how a complex system is glued together. AI tools like Copilot and Cursor are amazing at making us write code faster, but developers still spend almost 50% of their time just reading and navigating code. Nobody was solving the comprehension...

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