Also Blender, Chrome, FFmpeg, LLVM are examples for large and long scale projects codebases, that are almost like old vs. new brain, meaning there are old low-level codelines and on top of those cumulates all kinds of abstractions.
Geohot's tinygrad is great example of booting up codebase from scratch: set conscious goal for small max lines of code (e.g. 1k), then code the next state of working implementation, then clean and refactor it to cut the fat off. It feels that code wants to shape to specific form and size depending on goal.
Of course, some of it fits one meaning of the word and some fits the other meaning.