Documentation That Doesn't Suck — READMEs, ADRs, and Runbooks
Learn to write the minimum documentation that actually helps — from READMEs that onboard new developers to ADRs that explain why your code is the way it is.
Documentation has a reputation problem. Say the word and developers picture 200-page spec documents that nobody reads, written by people who don't code, outdated before the ink dries.
That's bad documentation. Good documentation is the difference between a new developer being productive in one hour versus one week. It's the difference between you remembering why you made that weird architectural decision six months ago versus staring at your own code like it was written by a stranger.
And here's the AI angle that makes documentation more important than ever: your AI agent's usefulness is directly proportional to the context you give it. A well-documented project means your agent can understand the codebase, the conventions, and the reasoning behind decisions — without you explaini
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