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Practice, practice, practice. Shave days of waste every year by having great documentation tools on your machine and LEARN the tools you use most so you can skip the google. Invest these saved hours into more important tasks.

Whiteboard a design with a colleague, socialize your ideas.

Open a “do not merge” pull request early and keep pushing changes to it. Keep your lead/mentor tagged and request early feedback.

In a large codebase there are usually many many conventions like “this is THE WAY we do such and such” and it’s important to pick these up. It can be difficult to find these they are not always well documented.

Really, practice. Build things. Write a lot of code for your job. Write a lot of code for yourself on whatever interests you. Put in the hours or keep putting them in if you already are and your knowledge will continue to compound.