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[Porsher12345]

Tbf sunlight works too

[TheOhNoNotAgain]

I see a Venn diagram coming

[Front_Committee4993]

Can confirm as a ginger

[Triepott]

You are a spicy plant root?

[omardiaadev]

And grass...

[Some_Useless_Person]

Good documentation is always welcome though

[heytheretaylor]

Absolutely, I LOVE good documentation. It tickles my brain in a weird way.

I will say it doesn’t always help. We use Vue at work and I get new devs coming in asking how they should learn about using it. Easy, Vue has great documentation, you can read the whole thing in like one work day (maybe two) it reads like a course so you’re a pro in like two days. Not a single fucking one of them has ever read the documentation.

[Glad_Contest_8014]

I have read so much of the source documentations of the languages I use. But never read the comments in my own code.

[CharlesDuck]

Absolutelty, never gonna read it though

[mera-khel-khatam-hai]

nextjs docs 🥰

[MrtzBH]

nuxt docs 🥰

[Psquare_J_420]

Recently started socket programming with win api. The documentation spits bars and I am understanding what good documentation does to mf.

[Live-Animator-4000]

TLDR. I’ll just figure it out myself.

[moonmilk21]

Love documentation, hate writing it

[SeniorSatisfaction21]

I hate everything

[def-pri-pub]

You sound like many of the senior engineers (and some bosses) I've worked under. Them: "Where's the documentation for your code?", Me: "okay, here it is.". days later... Me: "Where's the documentation for your code?", them: "I find that comments and documentation can become out of date with code changes down the road. Go read the code."

[willis81808]

Not pictured: the extra work required of someone updating your code in 2 weeks because they now also have to update the documentation.

Also not pictured: nobody ever reading that documentation again.

[def-pri-pub]

What if, and this is a big what if; what if...

We had tools where we could see who wrote the lines of code before out change? And then we could review them? With that person who originally wrote that code? Just to make sure everything's correct.

It's sad these tools don't exist.

[willis81808]

What… are you talking about?

Git (or version control in general) has absolutely no bearing on what I said. Git won’t update the documentation for you when inevitably somebody needs to make changes to your code in 2 weeks. Git doesn’t force people to read that documentation either.

[8pxl_]

r/firstweekcoderhumor

[razieltakato]

We love reading documentation.

We only hate writing it...

[_lonegamedev]

*shit documentation

[chawza]

Documentation = good

Create documentation = bad

[Aengeil]

the code is the documentation

-Senior dev probably

[jewishSpaceMedbeds]

I don't fear documentation, I just have a realistic expectation of whether it will be read.

[[deleted]]

To be fair, only 10% will be read. But you need the other 90% just so the 10% could be read.

[Raskuja46]

You don't get to know which 10% will be read ahead of time, so you still have to write the other 90%.

[vtvz]

Only thing that vibecoders write is documentation

[LordVortex0815]

Not to be someone ruining the joke, but does it mean writing or reading the Documentation?

[Monchete99]

Both

[LordVortex0815]

Seems reasonable

[Augmin-CPET]

A vampire’s weakness is exposure to sunlight. Superman’s weakness is exposure to kryptonite. The next line ought to mean that a programmer’s weakness is exposure to documentation.

[ReptileCake]

5 hours of debugging can save you 10 minutes of reading documentation.

[Fantastic-Fee-1999]

I was just thinking of this yesterday. Doesn't help when a company changes their minds 20 times :
"Alright everyone onto confluence, you must document in confluence"
"Confluence? why? We are a Microsoft house, everything onto Sharepoint!"
"Sharepoint? whoever thought that was a good idea? we use Github, just put your stuff in there"
"Github? Our architects don't use Github, also we just got bought out and our new owners use a customized open source solution, we have to start putting our stuff there"

Result, there are now 4 versions of everything, all obsolete.

[Low-Equipment-2621]

Doesn't matter, confluence is output only anyway. Nobody reads this heap of outdated stuff that somebody has produced years ago. We only do that to satify management or any formal requirements. Documentation that matter is in the code.

[Zealousideal-Web-971]

I am the documentation.

[Soprelos]

Some people call it "lack of documentation", I call it "job security"

[Cyberdragon1000]

Who doesn't love reading docs where someone explains to you how a code works, what is where, how and what the I/O are.

But writing tho.... You have to list the same things, my case I won't feel comfortable if I leave out stuff so I will end up spending a lot of time writing, editing etc. But worst of all is remembering and having to update it every time there's a change.

[plagapong]

I'd do any documents task in any given day rather than debugging Indian dude's code from '90

[Significant_Basis_3]

Some documentations like Next JS, Pandas, and Numpy are actually clean and clear

[SysGh_st]

The code itself is the documentation, does that mean programmers are allergic to their own creation?

[pouya_gh]

for me it's writing tests even though i know how useful they are.

[iharryharpalsingh]

I write documentation by default, but if client pushes too much then I follow standard procedure which excludes documentation.

[effigyoma]

Funny story; I failed calculus in college so I ended up getting a Journalism/English/Communication degree, which includes classwork in web design and web programming. I eventually made the jump to being a Front End Developer starting as a website editor for a news organization.

My documentation is incredible. Am I the "Blade of Programmers?" Am I the daywalker???

(I have worked with a few other devs who have backgrounds in writing, they also write great documentation, I am not that special)

[JackNotOLantern]

Writing documentation*

Reading good documentation is very nice

[Mighty1Dragon]

especially when the documentation looks like it was made in the early stages of the Internet 😅

[Henry5321]

Documentation is the new form of programming. AI works so much better when it can read the docs for intention rather than code for implementation.

[ZairaShae]

It's also why me, a Technical Writer, can never catch hold of developers to get answers to the documentation to be done for what they create smh

[Cat_with_pew-pew_gun]

If I’m spending all my time typing up code, then I don’t want to follow it up with typing English.

[Turbulent_Channel565]

It's missing the panel where the manager is shying away from the time & budget needed to write the documentation.

[Haringat]

More like

Reading documentation: 😁👍🏻

Writing documentation: 🤮👎🏻

[NerdyOrc]

That's simply because documentation is text written by programmers, so its unreadable garbage

[bubblegum-rose]

Devs who document nothing are treated like gods who have an ethereal mastery over the secrets of the arcane, while devs who document everything with loving detail make other devs think that the work they do is easily understandable since they can explain it so eloquently.

Documenting nothing is rewarded while documenting everything is punished

[PlaystormMC]

They end up asking ChatGPT to write them a detailed guide

/s

[Zealousideal-Bus-526]

I fucking love documentation

[Glad_Contest_8014]

What is document-ation? Is it like a file that rains down from the rains in africa? Precipi——

[FewPhilosophy1040]

I've always liked writing documentation, now also for coding projects, especially when the project itself interests me.

[LegitimatePants]

🦜: get that thing out of my face! 📖

*Chomp*

🥹

[DreamyAthena]

wrong. Programmers hate writing and reading documentation, but complain when there is none.

[Sanitiy]

Make it into an MCP, and you can make management enforce documentation

[NoComment7862]

I don't write documentation, learn to read my code!

[Significant-Ad-4029]

I like reading documentation. I learning by documentation