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by 8note 1699 days ago
if your team relies a lot on senior engineers knowing things, there's a problem with your technical architecture. The knowledge should be look up-able, and tied in a clear way to the functionality.

I'm one of the folks with lots of knowledge atm, and there's a corollary that the moment you teach somebody enough that they know things, they leave the team. Putting that knowledge into databases, code, and config files is much more durable, and can have new things built off of it