Documenting Decisions: Transparency in the Development Process

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series March 2026 - Truth and Transparency

Most codebases tell you what was built.Very few tell you why. Functions exist. Classes interact. Features appear. But the reasoning behind them — the trade-offs, constraints, debates, and discarded alternatives — is often lost to time. Decisions that once felt obvious become opaque. Assumptions that once made sense become invisible. When the “why” disappears, transparency …
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