The Documentation Paradox

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The Documentation Paradox

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The eternal developer paradox: spending an entire workday wrestling with broken code rather than taking five minutes to read the manual. It's not stubbornness—it's an investment strategy. Why solve a problem in minutes when you can turn it into a character-building experience that consumes your entire Tuesday? Documentation exists solely as a last resort, to be consulted only after exhausting all possible incorrect approaches first.

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