This shared understanding is rarely written down in one place; it lives partly in documentation and code, but also in code review, conversations, arguments, and the experience of explaining a change to someone else.

The tacit knowledge underlying a codebase is scattered across formal artifacts and informal human interactions rather than codified in a single source. ✦ AI generated

Armin Ronacher · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-14 · original ↗

This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in documentation and code, but also in code review, conversations, arguments, and the experience of having to explain a change to somebody else.

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