Tagged “decisions”

• How we distill decisions from Slack noise

  Inside Lockstep's distillation funnel: a four-test rubric, tiered models, prompt-cached extraction, and a human gate that nothing skips.

• Best decision-log tools for product & engineering teams (2026)

  Seven tools for keeping a decision log your team actually reads: Notion, Confluence, ADR files, Linear, GitHub Discussions, Loomio, and Lockstep.

• The load-bearing hallway: what AI coding agents break first

  Git, Jira, and PRDs were never the coordination layer — the human hallway was. AI coding agents delete it. What hospitals and remote teams teach us.

• The engineering decision log: what to write down, and when

  A practical guide to keeping a decision log: one question that tells you what counts, the four fields every entry needs, and the two moments teams always miss.

• Architecture Decision Records: right idea, wrong reader

  ADRs got the diagnosis right — record the decisions. But they quietly fail on the read side, and AI coding agents are about to make that failure loud.

• AGENTS.md: what to put in it, and what it can't carry

  A straight guide to what belongs in an AGENTS.md — commands, invariants, boundaries — what to keep out, and the coordination job no static file can do.