🤦‍♂️ I Used to Hate Documentation... Until One Video Bullied Me Into Liking It

😒 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 😌)