Tacit knowledge is inevitable. Some people, like Turing Award winner Peter Naur, claim that the knowledge in the programmer's head is actually the main "product

Tacit knowledge is inevitable. Some people, like Turing Award winner Peter Naur, claim that the knowledge in the programmer's head is actually the main "product" of programming. He calls this "Theory Building". There's an excellent paper on it, but it's pretty verbose, here's [1] a summary with some additional case studies. [1] https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/ https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/