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Who Knows This Code? Turning Git History into an Expertise Map

The real question behind every hard bug

Half of debugging a legacy system is social: who understands this part? On a big estate with staff turnover, the answer isn't obvious — and asking the wrong person wastes everyone's time.

Expertise, derived

CodeIQ Pro's who-knows answers it from evidence: it ranks the people most likely to help with a given code node, combining git authorship of the file with who has recorded decisions about it in code-Brain.

Beyond the last committer

Naive "git blame" points at whoever last touched a line — often someone who made a one-character fix. CodeIQ Pro weighs sustained authorship and recorded rationale, so it surfaces the person who actually shaped the code, not just the last to edit it.

Resilient to turnover

And when that person leaves, the decisions they recorded remain — so their expertise doesn't vanish with their laptop. The expertise map keeps working even as the team changes, which is exactly when you need it most.

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