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Discussion on: Why on earth would developers WANT to write documentation?

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Alfonso Guerra

The need for documentation is definitely very real, but making it part of the job description of the programmers isn't the best use of their time, nor the company's balance sheet which reimburses them for that time.

And I'm sure you've discovered many programmers aren't very good at explaining technical details well.

Teams should hire technical writers to write the internal documentation for the team and other stakeholders. The teams will save money and have better software and internal docs as a result.