At our startup, things are still being shaped so there's not a slick development experience. We have robust documentation and we've practiced engineers maintai

At our startup, things are still being shaped so there's not a slick development experience. We have robust documentation and we've practiced engineers maintaining a "stash" repo for their notes, which may sync back up to the primary documentation. We also make an effort wipe our stack and redo it every 2-4 weeks, so that we understand the warts while potentially finding new ones. We'll slowly move towards better developer experiences (and Makefiles are honestly great for most use cases), but a documentation culture is most important right now.