Architecture Decision Records exist to solve a recurring and expensive problem: six months after a significant technical decision was made, nobody remembers why it was made, the person who made it has left, and the team is either relitigating it or making a downstream decision that conflicts with it. ADRs are the solution. The problem is that most ADRs are either never written or written in a format that nobody reads. "An ADR that nobody reads is worse than no ADR. It creates false confidence th