> Most programmers believe a number of blatant falsehoods about documentation, with the most prevalent being "comments go out of date quickly, so there's no poi

> Most programmers believe a number of blatant falsehoods about documentation, with the most prevalent being "comments go out of date quickly, so there's no point in investing in them". More broadly, a problem with our cognition is that when we remember something right now, we often think it is unlikely or even not possible that we wouldn't remember it a day, a week, a month from now.