“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.
Yup, op has never had the joy of the docs lying to them.
Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? 🤔
Good example! My point exactly!
I’ve had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse.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.
Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.
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’
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…
Seemed more like the problem was the gaslighting than the documentation.
Wrong documentation is still a pretty big problem, even without the gaslighting. Incomplete documentation is better than none; incorrect documentation is not.
I can name a few examples of this
That documentation sounds like marriage.
You ok?
Well also like sex, when it’s really bad it’s worse than nothing.
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.
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).
In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…
Bad often equals “not super good” in this context
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
When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.
no.
What about when the sex is … wrong?
When it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.
When it’s bad you think “Fuck this, I can do it better by myself.”
