Also available in Español
The Problem
Open a codebase old enough that nobody currently on the team wrote it. The code still runs. Nobody can tell you why any particular decision was made the way it was.
Was that specificity workaround intentional, or an accident someone patched around? Was that reset choice deliberate, or just whatever the starter template shipped with? The code doesn't say. It never did. What's missing isn't functionality. It's the ability to reconstruct a reason.
Why the Problem Exists
