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Category: Programming Practices

Announcing Local AI-Powered Code Descriptions in Understand!

Posted on May 2, 2025

Stop struggling to decipher complex code. We’re thrilled to announce the immediate availability of AI Overview, a brand-new, locally run feature in Understand that generates insightful descriptions directly within your codebase. Unlock immediate understanding – no more guesswork!

Data Flow

Posted on December 27, 2023

Our lead engineer uses Understand’s assign references to track data flow and hunt down a memory leak.

Clear Writing Equals a Clear Mind

Posted on September 19, 2023

“A common fallacy is to assume authors of incomprehensible code will be able to express themselves clearly in comments.” – Kevlin Henney TLDR Clear writing equals thinking. Since you want your programmers…

Scoping a Refactoring Effort for My Boss

Posted on August 21, 2023

TLDR You’ve been asked to consider replacing 2 open source modules–here is how to use Understand’s Architectures and Dependency analysis to let your boss know how much effort/risk this will entail. Details…

Virtually Execute Code with Understand

Posted on December 13, 2022

Abstract: A script for virtually executing code. A debugger inside Understand sure would be nice. I hope I’m not the only one out there who uses Understand while debugging. Integrating a debugger…

Share (Or Don’t)

Posted on May 13, 2022

There are a lot of benefits to sharing Understand projects, but if you want to create your own, you can still benefit from the shared knowledge of your team.

The Perfect Catch

Posted on January 7, 2022

Understand’s CodeCheck features let your team catch bugs before they even make it to QA and help keep your code readable and maintainable.

Short-term memory overload while debugging

Posted on September 29, 2021

The decisions you make while thinking about code are far too complicated to trust to memory. Ken shows how Understand helps you not rely on short term memory and walk code in an organized fashion that misses nothing.

Our Favorite Computer Science Quotations

Posted on August 4, 2021

An ever growing list of quotations about computer science, with an emphasis on software maintenance

Why use Understand? (Dinner Party edition)

Posted on August 2, 2021

A long, and growing, list of dinner party conversation reasons Ken gives for why customers use Understand.

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