“Documentation is like sex: You’re not getting any”
Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud
Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.
It’s fine, babe, the doctor said I’ve got a standard.
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 can name a few examples of this
Well also like sex, when it’s really bad it’s worse than nothing.
That documentation sounds like marriage.
You ok?
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.
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.
no.
kinda uncomfortable this ignores concept of consent?
Nothing worse than non-consensual documentation.
aka surveillance capitalism
Sex is with consent. If there’s no consent it’s a rape
i agree!
Only if you assume it does.
It’s not about consent. No one is suggesting rape
That falls under WRONG. Lack of consent is WRONG but there’s also nothing worse than documentation that is WRONG.
When it’s bad you think “Fuck this, I can do it better by myself.”
There’s this cool program called qalc. I stumble on to cool features in it that’s not even listed in the documentation.
Deal, I’ve got plenty of small hobby projects that can use some!
As an asexual person this anology is very confusing
Also asexual.
Just consider most people really like sex, and some experience it as a very intense physical want to the point it makes sense that a bad version of it is better than none at all. Sort of similar to food. Better to have bad-tasting food and at least sate your hunger than to have nothing and starve.
Although, of course, it breaks down. The comments talk about actively harmful sex people wouldn’t want as well as harmful documentation; bad sex and documentation is not actually always better than no sex or no documentation. In the analogy, this would be sex that gives you an STD, or documentation that sends you running in circles and misleads you.
I’ve found a lot of understanding sex comes with just understanding a lot of people really really want it and experience it as a nigh-on need. Maybe liken it to some intense desires you have, things you need to be happy that you nonetheless don’t need to survive. (Of course, this is a generalization, I understand not all people with sexual desires have them this intensely. Some don’t need it to be happy but would sure like it a lot. And some might even get it more mildly. But for the purpose of understanding more mainstream jokes, analogies, etc. about sex…)
As an asexual person, you get just as much sex as most developers get documentation.
Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, “Documentation is like toilet paper, when it’s good it’s good, when it’s bad it’s better than nothing”? Or, “Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it’s better than nothing”, or “Documentation is like having something you need, it’s better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all”?
I like the analogy with toilet paper. Because when its bad, the very thing that was supposed to help you, got you covered in shit with no back out plan, making it that much worse.
Very fitting
As a sexual person, I agree
Bro has never been at /moma
Don’t be virgins, document things
What about when the sex is … wrong?
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
