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I'm building a way to verify resume claims with AI
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That day is now and the reason is that the documentation doesn't have to be written anymore. The conversation that led to the decision already exists — in your PR comments, Slack threads, and tickets. The reasoning is already there. It
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Those comment templates are actually really well structured you've invented a mini decision record format without calling it that. The problem you're hitting is discoverability the why is there, but only if you happen to read that
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The Q&A doc you're maintaining is fascinating you've essentially hand-built the thing I'm trying to automate. The 'Why Kafka?' entry is exactly the kind of decision that disappears when you leave. The search pro
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This is the clearest articulation of the problem I've seen. You've basically described exactly what I'm building. The passive ingestion angle treating reasoning as a byproduct of work already being done rather than a separate
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This is incredibly valuable context thank you. The career security point especially is something I hadn't fully articulated but explains why ADRs always die. Nobody wants to document themselves out of a job. The approach I'm explo
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Completely agree the manual capture is exactly where it breaks down every time. Curious, what's your current setup? GitHub + Slack or something different?
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The git hook idea for enforcing doc updates is really interesting has that actually worked long term for your team or does it eventually get bypassed?
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I am already working to automate the process
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How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?
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