Git log as archaeology
The code is a summary. Git is the document. When an RCA stops making sense from the current source, you read backwards.
Code-Reading
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The config file
Connection pool sizes, retry counts, timeouts, commented-out endpoints -- and the archaeology of values that survived production.
The margins
190 spinner verbs. A thinking indicator nobody specced. Reading Claude Code's source -- and what engineering taste looks like when nobody's watching.
Reading code
Scanners find what's syntactically wrong. The interesting issues live in assumptions -- and assumptions don't have signatures.