Truer words have never been spoken

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18 Comments

sheogorath@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3y (1 reply)

30 seconds of asking ChatGPT can save you time reading documentation. Hell, in the future it can even save your employer money from not paying you!

krani1@programming.dev · -2 pts · 3y

This!

knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml · 13 pts · 3y

I've been working with such a poorly documented application that five minutes of debugging can save me hours of reading documentation. Thanks Microsoft.

master@lem.serkozh.me · 12 pts · 3y (1 reply)

You can't read documentation if there is no documentation

laxe@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3y

Taps head

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 3y
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JasonDJ@vlemmy.net · 5 pts · 3y

“I don’t need to document why I did it this way because it’s painfully obvious”

—Past me.

rikudou@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 3y

I have this tweet in my bookmarks!

chanunnaki@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Lol

just_another_person@monyet.cc · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Tell that to Amazon and their documents about their own products.

dinodroid@programming.dev · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yes, AWS documentation can seriously mess up my brain. They really know how to complicate a simple thing.

einsteinx2@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y

I feel like that last sentence describes all of AWS, not just the documentation lol

lasagna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y

Worth it? No. Will I do it again? Yes.

Cuteblooded@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y

Wait, you guys get documentation?

chanunnaki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
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kraegar@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y

Welp. This is me. I spent a few hours debugging a failing test that was caused by a package update. If only I checked the changelogs...

flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Oh man, I am so guilty!

Thanks for this, it really helps the old imposter syndrome!

Sharpiemarker@startrek.website · 1 pts · 3y

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

HunterBidensLapDog@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y

On the other hand: Let me tell you the history of my thinking on this library before I show you the 5 minutes of documentation I buried in my manifesto.