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by theshrike79 4 days ago
"Asking the lead engineer" doesn't scale though. Writing shit down does.

So if your whole process is "just ask the lead eng" and you keep hiring new people, everyone keeps asking the lead and the lead quits beause nobody wants to do that.

If you write shit down, the new hires can ask your company internal AI system that has access to all of the docs and get the answer - with direct links to official decision documents telling the "why".

At the very least the lead engineer should write the answers down every time they're asked something and reply with RTFM after that =)