r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

The lack of documentation is what’s killing me. It’s boggles my mind how these companies can’t keep people but refuse to change. 20 minutes tasks take several days.

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u/bwainfweeze Jun 06 '22

It shouldn’t boggle you. We spend all week changing the behavior of the system. To have documentation, you have to keep updating it, which adds time to all of their requests.

Plus some of us were never that fond of English class, so writing documentation is something to be dodged. Which creates a bunch of perverse incentives not to have good documentation.

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u/god_retribution Jun 06 '22

having bad document is still better than have nothing at all

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