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The ADR Comeback: Anchoring Agentic Engineering Teams With Architecture Decision Records
Agentic coding tools are refactoring services that humans spent years getting right, and most of them have no memory of why the original design existed. Architecture Decision Records were a tidy idea when humans wrote all the code; they are now load-bearing infrastructure for any team where an AI agent touches production. A practical playbook for the ADR discipline, the new metrics that matter, and the three failure modes to avoid.
