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Any task has “core difficulty” and “incidental difficulty”. Struggling with docs is incidental difficulty, it’s a tax on energy and focus.
Your argument is an argument against the use of Google or StackOverflow.
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Any task has “core difficulty” and “incidental difficulty”. Struggling with docs is incidental difficulty, it’s a tax on energy and focus.
Your argument is an argument against the use of Google or StackOverflow.
Not really. There’s a pattern to reading docs, just like there’s a pattern to reading code. Once you grasped it, your speed increase a lot. The slowness that junior has is a lack of understanding.
Complaining about docs is like complaining about why research article is not written like elementary school textbooks.