Documentation Is an Underrated Engineering Skill
pritisinghhhh · x · 2026-07-12
The core viewpoint of this post is: Documentation is one of the most underrated engineering activities.
- It doesn't directly ship releases or close deals, but it preserves context across time.
- Spending an hour writing clear documentation can often save others ten hours of guessing later.
- It can also be combined with AI: have models generate documentation based on code changes, then feed this documentation back into chatbots to create a better collaboration and retrieval pipeline.
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