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Oliver Zehentleitner @oliverzehentleitner@burningboard.net · Jul 11, 2026

One surprisingly simple thing against legacy code: preserve the “why” while you’re already discussing it.

I turned the workflow I’ve been using with AI coding agents into a free and open-source skill:

Keep the Why.

It captures rationale during development, helps recover context from existing codebases, and supports knowledge-transfer interviews.

Because “ask Bob” is not documentation.

Article: https://blog.technopathy.club/keep-the-why-code-becomes-legacy-when-nobody-remembers-why

Project: https://keepthewhy.com

GitHub: https://github.com/oliver-zehentleitner/keep-the-why

Feedback and contributions are welcome.

#OpenSource #AIAgents #LegacyCode #SoftwareEngineering

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