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So, I'm a non-technical founder running a startup with a small team, and honestly, we've been diving pretty deep into this whole AI thing. Mostly using Claude Code and Codex, and sometimes Antigravity when we need agents to do the heavy lifting. It's wild how much we've managed to build with these tools, stuff I couldn't even imagine paying for last year. No complaints there, it's actually kind of amazing. But here's the thing, now we've got this codebase that actually works, but if you ask anyone why something is the way it is, nobody really knows. The code isn't bad, the reasoning behind it is missing. What keeps happening is someone hits a limit with one model, so they switch to another, and that new model has zero clue about what we've already tried or why we ditched certain ideas. So it ends up suggesting the same thing we already killed off a couple of weeks back, and sometimes it even rebuilds it from scratch. And the person who remembers why we killed it? That was like three sessions ago, and now nobody remembers, including the guy who did it, haha. The code itself is all there in the repo, so that's not the problem. What's missing is the why behind everything. Like, why did we go with this approach and not some other one? What did we already try and decide against? What was an actual decision versus just something the model did because we were too tired to argue? It's only been six weeks, and already there's a ton of this stuff piling up. We've tried all the usual stuff, keeping notes in a doc, writing longer prompts at the start of every session, even making a rules file. It all works for a few days, but then it just kind of fizzles out. The day you really need to write something down is always the day you're too deep in the weeds to actually stop and do it. So I'm really curious - if you're building with more than one of these models, how are you actually keeping track of the reasoning? Not the code itself, not the to-do list, but the why behind everything. Is there some tool or workflow that actually works, or does everyone just accept that after a month, the whole thing turns into a black box and you just hope for the best? P.S. If the answer is just 'write better docs,' trust me, I know. But I'm really looking for something that actually survives a busy week, not a system that expects me to suddenly become super disciplined.   submitted by   /u/Due_Board7010 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/17 16:50:18