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by beliu 1496 days ago
This is super common in my experience. Senior/experienced devs spend a bunch of time ramping up the inexperienced or new members of the team and don't have much time remaining to work on their own initiatives.

Patrick McKenzie has a good take on this along the lines of "teach someone to fish" (s/fish/code search/): https://mobile.twitter.com/patio11/status/108611151367121715...

We've tried to make it easier to turn organic code explorations into interactive docs that can be read many times over with a notebook-like feature. Here's a notebook that bobheadxi wrote up after he noticed he was explaining Sourcegraph's authz model for the billionth time: https://sourcegraph.com/notebooks/Tm90ZWJvb2s6NTc0