For me, personally, I can read a sentence in my English more easily than code. Code takes more effort for me to read, especially if it's not mine.<p>Don't tell me what the code is doing, tell me what you're trying to achieve. The goal you're trying to achieve. Tell me the problem and the outcome you want. Then I should read the code with a target understanding in mind rather than starting from nothing.<p>My mental model of how things work might be different to yours and you need to transfer that mental model to me so I can understand your code.<p>Context is everything when reading a line of code. Context of the business, context of state of the program, context of variables. Context of microservice state. Context context context.