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The practice of documenting hard-to-reverse technical choices and their rationale, often via ADRs, so future readers understand why a path was taken.
The R consultancy says what settled its retreat was code arriving faster than the team could read it. Its own decision record lists two other reasons that would have moved the project anyway.
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Derek Wang argues that a choice reached forty exchanges into an agent session lasts only as long as the context window, and he prescribes a seven-field record whose status line can be marked superseded.
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An architecture record for a health-data service spends one log event per deployment attempt, deriving the key fingerprint under an audit key held outside the log pipeline and holding the trail to 90 days.
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Kept's tracing layer went in before the agent loop, which produced one design decision worth copying and a promised accounting of the drawbacks that the available text never reaches.
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The expensive failure in a memory-equipped code reviewer is a confident citation of a convention the team replaced six weeks earlier. This take-home package tries to score that on 260 lines of Python.
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The AI-Native SDLC playbook is right that generation stopped being the slow step, and its artifact chain is careful engineering. The deterministic hooks it ships as examples all evaluate a path, which is not how an architectural decision is scoped.
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The ten-line version they did not build put order and policy into a prompt and parsed a JSON verdict back out. It lost on testability, since the same order can return two answers and CI stays green while behavior drifts.
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systemd earns its 5.10 kernel floor and glibc toolchain only when services need readiness ordering and resource limits. Plenty of fixed-function devices need neither.
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