@oliverzehentleitner@burningboard.net
Post #3741563
2026-07-11 05:59 UTC
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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@eduzsh@mastodon.social 2026-07-11 14:42
@oliverzehentleitner@burningboard.net This is the piece most agent workflows skip. The diff shows what changed, never why, so six months later nobody including the agent can explain the tradeoff. Capturing it at commit time beats trying to reconstruct it later.