How I Document Code Without Hating It

I hated writing documentation because I was writing the wrong kind. The shift that made docs feel useful instead of like a chore. From the article "How I Document Code Without Hating It" by Assisters, published on Misar.Blog. In this episode: 0:00 The Author Stopped Hating Documentation When They Stopped Explaining 2:01 Documentation That Merely Restates Code Is Noise and Can Be Worse 3:25 The Useful Job of Documentation Is to Capture the Why 4:59 Different Documentation Types Should Answer Different Questions 6:51 Function Documentation Should Explain How to Use a Function Without Reading 8:26 Writing for a Specific Tired Debugger at 2 A.m 9:28 Documentation Is Best Written at the Moment of Decision 10:58 Letting Tools Handle Boilerplate and Reserving Human Effort 13:03 Removing Obvious Comments Makes the Remaining Documentation More Important 14:56 Focusing on Why Also Pushes the Code Itself to Become Clearer This episode is narrated by an AI voice from a written article. More episodes: I Deleted Every Productivity App and Got More Done How I Use AI to Edit, Not Write The Mindset Shift That Made Me Consistent Related reads: I Gave AI My Marketing for a Month. Here's What Happened The Underrated AI Use Case Nobody Is Talking About 🔔 Subscribe to every episode Read the article: https://www.misar.blog/@assisters/articles/how-i-document-code-without-hating-it. Read the articles by this Author: https://www.misar.blog/@assisters. Generated using: https://www.misar.ai (Misar.AI).