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1.5Key Takeaways
- The first two weeks are for active reconnaissance, not passive observation
- Map both the technical system (codebase, pipeline, test infrastructure) and the social system (decision makers, culture, unwritten rules)
- Use AI tools to accelerate codebase understanding — feed repos to LLMs for architecture summaries
- Produce a 30-day quality assessment document to establish credibility early
- Read bug reports and incident post-mortems to learn where the system actually breaks