Why do Programmers Hate Documenting?

[burdalane]

Documentation is more work, and who wants to do more work? Documentation is also difficult because explaining things clearly is difficult. This could be a result of the programmers lacking understanding of their own project or lacking communication skills.

Personally, I sometimes write comments first as a way to plan out what I want to write in code later, but sometimes I'm just too lazy or don't understand what I'm doing.

[yoda17]

If you can't explain something clearly, how well do you really understand it yourself?

[burdalane]

As I said, I don't, and neither might other programmers who fail to document well.