[ozim]

You are lucky to have small code base or one that you write mostly?

With 6 other devs on the team and 5 apps our team supports there is no way I get code well organized especially when as a senior I have devops stuff to deal with meetings, explaining features to business, checking up support tickets and random stuff happening all the time.

I don’t know the code base and there is no way to keep up.

While I have to dive in and fix shit ASAP or when I get to code review I have to fix some less experienced guy code. Or write part of code when proposing architecture solution, because just telling people “I am right do it my way” does not work until I write piece of code and then they understand.

Language server and ctrl-click is my bread and butter because that is the fastest way while also going slow enough to understand context.

[nimih]

I'm curious what you do when you encounter issues in a 3rd party dependency, or (since it sounds like you do dev-ops work) in an infrastructure process or tool whose code you didn't write? I use auto-complete and LSP features pretty heavily myself in my day-to-day development work, but when debugging an issue, I sometimes run into issues with a 3rd party library, or a kubernetes component, or whatever, and it's necessary to jump into those codebases and understand what's going on, whether the bug is with the library or with our own integration, whether it's more expedient to patch the dependency or write a workaround in our own code, &c. And in those cases, I generally do not have a LSP running, or my editor properly configured beyond basic syntax highlighting, and I have to rely on, presumably, the same techniques that devs who don't use LSPs at all employ in their day-to-day work: being able to quickly read and understand other peoples' code, being able to approximate jump-to-def with find/grep/ag/rg, being able to effectively trace datatypes and control flow through multiple definitions/files, being able to take effective notes to improve my working memory, and so on.

[ozim]

Well yes I still do lots of grepping and just search in all files if needed. It is not exclusive but if I can use good IDE features it helps to be quicker.

I also have notes I write down where search is must have as my notes are not structured anyway.

[UltraSane]

nearly instantly searching through vasts amounts of data is one thing computers are amazing at and it is absurd not to leverage this capability wherever possible.