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Developers Lose Context on Their Own Code's Reasoning Over Time

Developers frequently return to code they wrote themselves and can't recall why a decision was made, then must re-explain the same logic to teammates during onboarding or reviews. As projects scale, understanding existing code increasingly takes longer than writing new code.

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