Comment by WillAdams

Rather than humanize, why not examine how it participates in the description and expansion of human knowledge?

Literate Programming seems the one effort to capture institutional knowledge as so described and make it accessible to anyone reading the source --- it has also been put forth as a mechanism to make software more accessible to/maintainable by LLMs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300747

If all the details and complexity are captured and explained thus, should it not be possible to maintain and extend?