#technicaldebt

Someone “cleaned up” the workaround. The code looked simpler. Then the production bug came back. That strange delay was not just ugly code. It carried knowledge: The upstream API could replay the same order unless the request was handled carefully. But the reason existed only in someone’s head. Keep the Why is an agent skill that captures this kind of rationale as a natural by-product of development and stores it as versioned Markdown inside the project. So before the next developer or agent removes the workaround, they can see: • why it exists • what was already tried • what could break • what must change before it can safely be removed Legacy does not begin when code gets old. It begins when the reason disappears. Free and open source: https://keepthewhy.com/ What “ugly” workaround in your codebase is actually carrying important knowledge? #OpenSource #AIEngineering #DeveloperTools #SoftwareEngineering #CodingAgents #ContextEngineering #TechnicalDebt #Documentation

I'm manually editing a Python file on a deployed host to fix a known problem in the library that was installed via pip. It's fixed the problem, telemetry is reporting in. But I feel unclean. #python #raspberrypi #linux #technicaldebt

With my apologies to Sun alumni (and my thanks to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social for the inspiration). #vibecoding #slop #technicaldebt