The point about over documenting is okay, but reliance on automation and tests is completely separate from documentation. They serve different purposes. The cod

The point about over documenting is okay, but reliance on automation and tests is completely separate from documentation. They serve different purposes. The code is not (all of) the documentation. People who rely on code comments, API docstrings/comments, and tests as documentation are thinking of documentation only at the level of the interface, not the bigger picture: that's a junior mentality. Also, documentation becomes stale and unreliable because too often too little attention is paid to it. It's not as fun as writing code, and it's arguably harder since the audience is either non-technical or has a different area of technical expertise.