The Conversation Is the Commit

Here’s a scene every working programmer has lived. It’s 2 AM. Something is broken in production. You’re staring at a commit from eight months ago. The message says “refactor auth logic.” That’s it. The PR has two approvals—thumbs-up emoji, no comments. The Slack thread where the team debated the approach was in a channel that got archived when the org restructured. The person who wrote it left the…