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Institutional knowledge locked in people's heads

4 posts

blogcto
06-Feb-2026

Your Codebase Knows Everything Your Team Has Forgotten

Git history, call graphs, and change patterns contain more reliable tribal knowledge than any wiki. The problem isn't capturing knowledge — it's extracting it.

Vaibhav Verma
blogcto
03-Feb-2026

Code Ownership at Scale: Who Knows What in Your Codebase

CODEOWNERS files are always stale. Git history tells the truth about who actually maintains, reviews, and understands each part of your codebase.

Tariro Mukandi
blogcto
01-Feb-2026

Remote Engineering Teams: Solving the Knowledge Transfer Problem

Remote work broke ambient knowledge sharing. Here's how to rebuild it without forcing everyone back to the office.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar
blogcto
26-Jan-2026

What Happens When Your Best Engineer Leaves

Knowledge concentration is a ticking time bomb. When a key engineer leaves, the blast radius extends far beyond their code.

Fatima Zahra Ghaddar