During my first two years as a professional engineer, I wrote commits that looked like this: feat: build core payment feature fix: broken links Yes, they were honest. They shipped. But as you move beyond the MVP stage and begin scaling the product, this development style fails. When your team grows, or when stakeholders (CEOs, investors, and auditors) start asking for the why behind a pivot made six months ago, "broken links" isn't a valid answer, but a liability. If you find yourself spending more time in Slack threads and outdated Notion pages than actually building, your documentation needs more work. Git is the documentation 99% of the time. Warning For an internal tool, a prototype, or a data pipeline that only two people touch, fix: broken links is fine. Not every repo needs FAANG commit discipline. I'm only speaking for teams that suffer from micromanagement, big organizations, and consultants who need to document their work.…