I’m at the same point as well. Doing more reading than writing.

Just want to add one more point: code is not fiction or even nonfiction, “good or bad” style can be subjective, but correct or not correct is not, regardless of the reviewer’s mental model.

The difficulty of reading code is to understand its logic and logical consequences. The more complex the codebase (not just the line we are reading), the more risky to modify it.

That is why I use LLM to write a lot of tests and let it review the logs to help me understand the logic. Even the tests can be disposable.