Good documentation doesn't just describe what the code does — it captures why decisions were made. AI can generate facts. It wasn't in the meeting. Here's why documentation is leadership.
The Documentation Reframe
Nobody wants to write documentation. It's tedious. It's never up to date. Nobody reads it anyway. So why do the best developers on every team seem to write so much of it?
Because documentation isn't a record. It's a leadership act.
What Documentation Actually Does
The purpose of documentation isn't to record what happened. It's to change what happens next. Good documentation:
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