This is just the classic rehash of are comments in code an anti-pattern.
replyI tend to agree that at a certain point if you need to constantly think "gee, I wish I was in the meeting when they came up with this" the code you are looking at might just suck.
In such contexts it is also often the case that being in the meeting may not have helped. As they say, garbage in, garbage out.
no its not. there is nothing in the code that can tell you how the system was intended the work. The existence of a bug is by definition related to information that is not contained in the code. it is a mismatch between intent and what the code does.
replySometimes it is useful to simply know something was brought up, but then someone had a sneezing fit and everyone lost track of the thread and the important edge case under discussion just fizzled.
replyA similar thing happens in agentic conversations, where a model may point out something but it is not recognized as important by the operator.
A few directives later and the model is being pushed another direction.
It can be very useful to have perfect recall of moments like these.