[jcgrillo]

There's a secret third option: learn. At one point, all of us were "nontechnical", but we learned. The trick is to never stop.

[akazantsev]

Is it? Learning is one thing. But owning a large codebase, you see for the first time, is a completely different level.

[VorpalWay]

When I started working on a large legacy C++ code base in the early 2010s, I learnt. It took probably close to a year until I was proficient enough that I didn't regularly need to ask where to fins things. This is a skill we used to have (and some of us still have).

Though if your code base is all a vibe coded mess and you don't have a senior human colleague to ask... Good luck?

[jcgrillo]

Yeah giving up is totally a viable choice, but it isn't the only option.