😒 Documentation and I Were Not Friends
Let me be honest:
If documentation was a person, I would block it on every platform.
I always found docs:
boring 😴
exhausting 😩
and somehow capable of draining the life out of me (not that I had much left anyway)
Since the beginning of my developer journey, my relationship with documentation looked like this:
Docs: "Read me."
Me: "No." opens YouTube
I avoided it like developers avoid writing tests.
And honestly, life was good... until it wasn’t.
📺 Then I Found The Video
I accidentally stumbled upon a livestream on Chai Aur Code (yes, 2–3 days late, as usual 🤓) where Hitesh Choudhary was learning a Backend-as-a-Service platform called Convex.
And what was he doing?
Just reading documentation.
I thought:
“Great, a video of someone reading documentation. This is peak entertainment.”
— Me, 2025
I had zero expectations, but I kept watching... and suddenly something strange happened.
I liked it.
No, really. I enjoyed a man reading docs on YouTube.
Please don't judge me 😭.
🔄 The Plot Twist: I Started Liking Documentation
Somewhere between:
reading the official Convex docs,
following along step-by-step,
and realizing the docs were actually helpful,
I felt something I never felt before:
✨ Documentation is not the enemy.
In fact, it started to feel… fun?
I know, I know, I’m scared too.
🧠 What Changed in My Brain?
I realized documentation is not a task you complete — it’s a superpower you unlock.
Documentation helps you:
✔ learn faster
✔ build without waiting for tutorials
✔ understand tech in a deeper way
✔ stop searching random Stack Overflow answers from 2012
It turns out the docs aren’t boring.
My approach was boring.
☕ Why That Chai Aur Code Stream Worked
Because it wasn’t about memorizing docs. It was about:
exploring
trying things
breaking things
fixing things
repeating
And watching Hitesh learn Convex from scratch showed me something important:
You don’t need to know everything.
You just need to know how to read the docs.
🛠 If You Also Hate Documentation, Try This
Here’s my new documentation ritual:
1️⃣ Don’t skim. Actually read.
2️⃣ Keep a playground project open next to docs 🧪
3️⃣ Try small examples immediately
4️⃣ Break something on purpose (fun guaranteed)
5️⃣ Google only after the docs fail you
🥂 Final Thoughts
Documentation and I still argue, but we’re trying therapy and things are improving.
I won’t say I’m a doc-lover now, but my mindset has changed, and honestly?
That’s a big win for me as a developer.
So here’s a toast to:
📚 Documentation — the thing we love to hate, but absolutely need.
🔗 If you want to see the video that converted me:
Search for Chai Aur Code + Convex on YouTube.
(Sending the link feels like I’m inviting you into a cult, so I’ll let you look it up yourself 😌)
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