The end of "Just ask Sarah" — Simon Aronsson
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Every engineering organization has a Sarah. Humans can ask her - agents won't.
The end of "Just ask Sarah" — Simon Aronsson $ ls -la ./docs/adrs total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 user staff 64 Apr 28 09:14 . drwxr-xr-x 8 user staff 256 Apr 28 09:14 .. $ █ Field notes Documentation used to back up organizational memory. With agents, it becomes execution context. In this essay ◆ leadership Apr 29, 2026 7 min read The end of "Just ask Sarah" Every engineering organization has a Sarah. Humans can ask her - agents won't. Sarah is the person who knows why a service was split, why an abstraction exists, why a strange constraint shaped the current design, and why the obvious fix was rejected
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