17:[[47368874,{"by":"zain__t","descendants":64,"id":47368874,"kids":[47369466,47370032,47369727,47369751,47369623,47370514,47370064,47370434,47369374,47370080,47369303,47369352,47369608,47369826,47369699,47369582,47369643,47369476,47369224,47370191,47370150,47369044,47377923,47370123,47369452,47368993,47369925,47370392,47371140,47369624,47372606,47372153,47374367,47370060,47369359,47370093,47369026,47369741],"score":41,"text":"We onboarded a senior engineer recently strong, 8 years experience. \nHe spent 3 weeks playing code archaeologist just to understand WHY \nour codebase looks the way it does.

Not what the code does. That was fast. But the reasoning behind decisions:

- Why Redis over in-memory cache?\n- Why GraphQL for this one service but REST everywhere else?\n- Why that strange exception in the auth flow for enterprise users?

Answers were buried in closed PRs with no descriptions, 18-month-old \nSlack threads, and the heads of two engineers who left last year.

We tried ADRs. Lasted 6 weeks. Nobody maintained them.\nWe tried PR description templates. Ignored within a month.\nWe have a Notion architecture doc. Last updated 14 months ago.

Every solution requires someone to manually write something. Nobody does.

Curious how teams at HN actually handle this:

1. Do you have a system that actually works long-term?\n2. Has anyone automated any part of this?\n3. Or is everyone quietly suffering through this on every new hire?","time":1773431283,"title":"How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just 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