documentation Memes

Developer: "Tea bags are so intuitive they don't need instructions." End user: *dunks entire tea bag, wrapper and all, into hot water* And that's why we write documentation for even the most "obvious" features. Users will find ways to break your software that you couldn't imagine in your worst fever dreams. The line between intuitive and incomprehensible is thinner than your project deadline.

The eternal struggle between documentation readers and documentation avoiders! While one developer is frantically Googling, checking Stack Overflow, and reverse-engineering libraries, the other calmly points to the documentation that literally spells out the solution. It's the perfect encapsulation of two developer archetypes: the one who treats documentation as a last resort and the one who's discovered the ancient secret that documentation... actually contains useful information. Revolutionary concept! The final panel's deadpan "It's docs" is basically the programmer equivalent of "have you tried turning it off and on again?" - simple, obvious, yet somehow mind-blowing to those who never considered it.

Every dev has said it: "It's so intuitive, why waste time documenting it?" Fast forward six months, and you're staring at your own code like it's hieroglyphics written by a caffeinated squirrel. That tea bag floating in water is the perfect metaphor - what seems crystal clear to you now becomes a murky, unidentifiable mess for the poor soul (probably future you) who has to figure out what the hell you were thinking. Documentation isn't for today's genius you; it's for tomorrow's confused you who just wants to go home.

When a senior dev asks if you wrote code without comments, you know you're about to face a military tribunal-level interrogation. The look of utter disbelief followed by immediate sentencing is just *chef's kiss*. Submitting uncommented code to review is basically a declaration of war against your fellow developers. Future maintainers will be excavating your logic like archaeologists trying to decipher hieroglyphics without a Rosetta Stone. Remember folks, code tells the computer what to do, but comments tell other humans why you did it that way. Skip them at your peril!

The eternal paradox of "high quality" code that nobody else can decipher. When your documentation is non-existent, your variable names are single letters, and your functions are 500 lines long—but hey, at least you understand the labyrinth you've created. The ultimate job security strategy: write code so convoluted that firing you would be corporate suicide. Maintainability? That's just a fancy word for "letting other people mess with my masterpiece."

The perfect response when your coworker asks if you've consulted the documentation before bothering them with your problem. Ten years in this industry and I've developed a sixth sense for detecting who actually reads docs versus who just mashes Stack Overflow solutions together until something works. Documentation is like flossing - everybody claims they do it regularly, but the reality is much grimmer. Most devs would rather reverse-engineer an entire codebase than spend 5 minutes reading what the author actually intended.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of that guy who quit last week! "It's all in the documentation," he said with a straight face while leaving us with what appears to be LITERAL HIEROGLYPHICS! 🙄 You know what's worse than no documentation? Documentation that requires a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Studies and a time machine! Like, sweetie, unless you're expecting us to hire the ghost of Indiana Jones as a consultant, maybe write something in ACTUAL ENGLISH next time? The rest of us are now stuck playing archaeological code detective, desperately trying to decipher if that bird symbol means "critical database function" or "I was bored on a Tuesday." Truly the ultimate revenge of a departed developer!