Add a section about autoloading in the Getting Started Guide

guides/source/getting_started.md

@@ -361,6 +361,24 @@ confirming that the `root` route is also mapped to the `index` action of
 TIP: To learn more about routing, see [Rails Routing from the Outside In](
 routing.html).
 
+Autoloading
+-----------
+
+Rails applications **do not** use `require` to load application code.
+
+You may have noticed that `ArticlesController` inherits from `ApplicationController`, but `app/controllers/articles_controller.rb` does not have anything like
+
+```ruby
+require "application_controller" # DON'T DO THIS.
+```
+
+Application classes and modules are available everywhere, you do not need and **should not** load anything under `app` with `require`. This feature is called _autoloading_, and you can learn more about it in [_Autoloading and Reloading Constants_](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/autoloading_and_reloading_constants.html).
+
+You only need `require` calls for two use cases:
+
+* To load files under the `lib` directory.
+* To load gem dependencies that have `require: false` in the `Gemfile`.
+
 MVC and You
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