“Documentation is like sex: You’re not getting any”
Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud
This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.
Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? 🤔
Good example! My point exactly!
Yup, op has never had the joy of the docs lying to them.
I’ve had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.
I’ve been there… (In a work/corporate context, at least)
I’ll leave ‘the night work’ out of it, however (damn, the glitter gets everywhere!)
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Someone’s never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.
Literally me yesterday trying to decipher Baidu’s PaddleOCR docs. Have half a mind to aim Claude Code at the URL and just be like ‘plz help’
Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.
Absolutely not. I’d rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years
I think there’s a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn’t really incorrect, it’s just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.
I mean, incorrect documentation is clearly bad, so…
Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn’t really explain how to do something with enough details. It’s all literally shot in the dark and you’re just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *
Last week I spent a day trying to figure out why the thing in the damn documentation doesn’t work.
Turns out, for that project “latest” doesn’t point to their latest release, but to what they currently have on their dev branch. And apparently they changed the whole module around since the last release.
🙏
Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.
It’s fine, babe, the doctor said I’ve got a standard.
When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.
Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.
Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).
When it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.
What about when the sex is … wrong?
Bad documentation could land you in prison.
Bad sex is just horrible all around.
not sure what this post is on about
I would say bad sex can land you in a prison too.
good point
Bro has never been at /moma
When documentation is missing critical bits of information I don’t know if its better than nothing. Spend ages and then have to raise a ticket saying its a bug because its not working as documented, when no documentation would have just been an instant ticket raised asking how its supposed to work. Because it turns out everything was working correctly and the customer had just set something up wrong but there was no documentation covering that bit so according to what we had, all looked good.
