I am not a particularly great programmer. I am decent at documentation, to the point where I have received unsolicited commentary about the technical documents

I am not a particularly great programmer. I am decent at documentation, to the point where I have received unsolicited commentary about the technical documents I produce and the comments in my code. My technical writing class is largely to thank for it, plus a hefty dose of frustration at reading awful documentation over the years, combing through code with almost no comments, and the like. Once your code "works," nobody cares about it -- they're on to the next thing -- and then the next time it receives attention is if something goes wrong, or something changes either coming in or going out. It is then that your code will receive attention again. Having good docs on hand is going to make that quite a lot better.