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> "we are lazy assholes who can't keep docs up to date, therefore docs are useless" Rather: managers do not highly value work on documentation, so many program
by aleph_minus_one 3y ago
> "we are lazy assholes who can't keep docs up to date, therefore docs are useless"
Rather: managers do not highly value work on documentation, so many programmers care little about it. If writing good documentation was valued more by managers than implementing feature stories, the situation would be different. Incentives do matter.
- sfn42 3y agoWe are the engineers. It is up to us to tell non technical managers what's important. They don't know shit, they're just there to handle the shit we don't want to handle, like talking to clients or upper management or whatever. It's all just bad excuses for not doing work properly. Writing clean and well documented code very quickly becomes faster than writing a tangled undocumented mess.