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Thomas H Jones II

...And you're missing that the engineer in question isn't necessarily doing any of that. Some people simply remember everything they stumble across (whether they want to or not). It's not that they spend all their time crawling code, it's that, as they've been asked to fix things, the cumulative code-crawling to find bugs has resulted in them getting the entire code-base stuck in their head.