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by zain__t
92 days ago
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This is incredibly valuable context thank you. The career security point especially is something I hadn't fully articulated but explains why ADRs always die. Nobody wants to document themselves out of a job.
The approach I'm exploring tries to remove the human writing step entirely passively capturing decisions from PRs, Slack threads, and tickets and auto drafting the rationale. The human just approves or dismisses in one click.
The incentive problem flips instead of asking someone to document themselves, you're just asking them to approve something already written. Much lower friction.
Curious from your 25 years on this do you think the passive capture angle addresses the incentive problem or does the resistance run deeper than just the writing effort? |
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A busy engineer trying to hit a deadline is just going to do the easiest thing, aren't they?
Also there is all sorts of tacit knowledge that goes into a decision and I just don't think you are going to capture this automatically.
(I worked on it 25 years ago, rather than for 25 years.)