You can only do much by learning to code from scratch now. The best is to use boilerplates, starter kits or even no-code tools. Use the coding knowledge to familiarise yourself with the codebase and tweak as you go.
Another way is to take a section of codes and ask GPT or Claude to explain line by line, or just simply ask "What does this do?".
tbh, I still do that because my work requires me to interchange languages quite often. I'm a Rails dev by skill, but quite frequently I do Astro/Svelte and Python (AI-related jobs), etc.
You can only do much by learning to code from scratch now. The best is to use boilerplates, starter kits or even no-code tools. Use the coding knowledge to familiarise yourself with the codebase and tweak as you go.
Another way is to take a section of codes and ask GPT or Claude to explain line by line, or just simply ask "What does this do?".
tbh, I still do that because my work requires me to interchange languages quite often. I'm a Rails dev by skill, but quite frequently I do Astro/Svelte and Python (AI-related jobs), etc.
I think it is an amazing idea. Thanks!