Your Team Isn't Bad at Code. You're Bad at Remembering Why You Wrote It.

Someone opens a PR, sees a weird architectural choice, and drops the comment:** "Why are we doing it like this?"** And then comes the silence. A thread. Someone pinging someone who left six months ago. A "pretty sure Dave made this call" that goes nowhere. Two hours later you're either blindly changing something you don't understand, or you're leaving it alone forever because nobody wants to be the one who breaks prod. This isn't a skill issue. It's not a documentation issue either, not really. It's a decisions issue. And it's silently rotting your codebase. The Conversation That Disappears Here's what actually happens on every engineering team. Someone posts in Slack: "Hey, should we use REST or GraphQL for this new service?" Fifteen messages fly. Smart people weigh in. A decision gets made. Maybe there's a thumbs up emoji. Thread closed. Six months later? That Slack message is gone from anyone's memory. The new hire has no idea. The senior dev who made the call left for a startup. An