cheap capture was never the bottleneck.. decisions go missing because the actual reason was political, somebody was protecting a team, a deadline or a hire, and nobody writes that down in an ADR.. so agents inherit the sanitised history and get steadily more confident about a past that did not happen
The compounding point is the key one. Every decision a team documents today becomes context an agent can use on the next project. Most teams have not started that loop yet, which means the gap between teams that capture decisions and teams that skip them is about to get much wider.
With agents I write code much faster, but if I don't write down why I picked a path, next time I start from scratch. The agent doesn't remember the why.
cheap capture was never the bottleneck.. decisions go missing because the actual reason was political, somebody was protecting a team, a deadline or a hire, and nobody writes that down in an ADR.. so agents inherit the sanitised history and get steadily more confident about a past that did not happen
The compounding point is the key one. Every decision a team documents today becomes context an agent can use on the next project. Most teams have not started that loop yet, which means the gap between teams that capture decisions and teams that skip them is about to get much wider.
With agents I write code much faster, but if I don't write down why I picked a path, next time I start from scratch. The agent doesn't remember the why.