Documentation Is Like Sex

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Documentation Is Like Sex

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The eternal truth of software development captured in one painful analogy. Good documentation is like finding a unicorn riding a rainbow - rare but magnificent. Bad documentation is that cryptic comment from 2013 that just says "fixes stuff." But when you're staring into the void of an undocumented codebase at 2AM, even that single-line README feels like a lifeline thrown by a merciful deity. The bar is so low it's practically a tripping hazard.

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