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Communication and documentation? Most programmers I've met were pretty bad at both. Most people I've met who were good at both weren't programmers. It's hard to
by solardev 2y ago
Communication and documentation? Most programmers I've met were pretty bad at both. Most people I've met who were good at both weren't programmers. It's hard to find that overlap.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoSeconded. By far the single biggest problem in tech is the brain-to-brain transmission of technical information. It's hard, slow, and lossy. Nobody is perfect at it, but you can get better.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y agoNobody wants to write documentation, but it's so crucial for on-boarding new employees to have well-written (and even more important, up-to-date) documentation. It's so frustrating to be unable to find information, and even when I do find it, it's outdated, and the only way I find out it's outdated is because I spend an hour+ trying to get something to work based on the instructions, and when I finally pop a question on Slack, I'm told "Oh, we haven't done it that way in a long time. Here's what you need to do..."