This is a bit weird to me since I never thought someone would just go and read source code of some program from start to finish. It would be something like reading an encyclopedia starting from the letter A.
That said, I personally DO read code. Besides code reviews that were mentioned in the article I read the code that my code depend on. Especially when I want to better understand some API, I read not only the headers, but the actual implementations of the functions that I'm using.
Sometimes I read code to better understand some algorithm. I only understood how Transformer architecture worked when I read some of its implementations.
So yeah, reading code is cool. We just don't read it as we read books.
That said, I personally DO read code. Besides code reviews that were mentioned in the article I read the code that my code depend on. Especially when I want to better understand some API, I read not only the headers, but the actual implementations of the functions that I'm using.
Sometimes I read code to better understand some algorithm. I only understood how Transformer architecture worked when I read some of its implementations.
So yeah, reading code is cool. We just don't read it as we read books.