The speaker believes software repositories need documentation alongside code to preserve the reasons for decisions and the context behind them.

“spit out. Um but all that gets checked in and then it serves as the surface where not only do you have the code as the source you know I think there's a debate on like do you even need docs like the code can actually be the memory of a code base. Um and I do think you do. You need to know why you made a decision, you need to know the context around the conversation that was had. Um but ultimately that plus the code base”