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The only caveat to that is: if it's a pattern that is used frequently. For example, the tons of auto-generated gRPC code. First go around, sucks. You have to dive & read a lot. 2nd-3rd go around, you might remember more bits of it so you can use it with only a few lookups of defs. More than that? You likely don't need to dive into it at all to understand.

So perhaps this tool would be very useful, if you're going to use it a ton. Or use it only once and not really have to access the internals. But if it's something that is bespoke, and you update it infrequently, that's ripe for frustration on re-reads.




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