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The cynic in me says it's building your own job security. Documentation only really gets created if leadership forces the issue in my experience. You also get t
by namelessoracle 4y ago
The cynic in me says it's building your own job security. Documentation only really gets created if leadership forces the issue in my experience. You also get to sell the refactor/rewrite because "nobody understand the existing code".
- 988747 4y agoI've been a programmer for 15 years and I've never seen it done for "job security". I think this is mostly about low tolerance for boredom of most programmers: writing code is exciting, documenting it is boring, so you do not do it unless forced to.
- namelessoracle 4y agoIve seen people "neglect" to offer training peers or document things before to protect their own position. Anecdotes and all that. I mean people "usually" wont say that out loud of course.