Last week, I watched a senior dev spend 45 minutes just trying to figure out if an API endpoint was deprecated or not.
He had to dig through Slack threads, check two different wikis, and finally just ask the original author. The answer was in there somewhere—but buried.
This happens at every company, and it costs them thousands in lost productivity annually.
Here's the thing: Bad API docs aren't usually bad because devs don't want to write them. They're bad because teams don't have a structure. Once you give them a framework, good documentation basically writes itself.
Why API Documentation Actually Matters
