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The love letter future-you writes, that future-you never reads.
means The written record explaining how something works or what was done, so others (or you, later) don't have to guess.
from From Latin documentum, 'lesson' or 'proof,' built on docere, 'to teach.' The same root gives us 'doctor' and 'doctrine' — all things that instruct. A document was originally something that taught or warned, only later narrowing to mean an official written record.
- oldest excuse
- We will document it later
- real ratio
- Code changes daily, docs change yearly
- true audience
- Usually just future, confused you
- rarest sighting
- Documentation that matches the actual code