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S3 E4: Morgan Sadr-Hashemi (Software Engineer to CPTO)

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The Importance of Documentation in Engineering

I like what you're saying about there are probably certain things that we do want almost like a written record off or to have that context. Almost like documenting the why behind the yes, no green light red light decision, like that should be maybe mandatory to keep that. The things we learned early on in our engineering career are not to tell you what comes after, don't tell me what it's doing, tell me why it is the way it is. And same for like get commits, don't just write I made this change, right? This is why this change is being made, right? Like the changes here. It's achieving this followed by a longer commit message of and these

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