"Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"

Someone's never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.

Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

I've had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.

Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.

Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn't really explain how to do something with enough details. It's all literally shot in the dark and you're just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.

no.

Bad documentation could land you in prison.

Bad sex is just horrible all around.

not sure what this post is on about

When it's bad you think "Fuck this, I can do it better by myself."

Bad sex is not better than no sex.... Wtf... :)

As an asexual person this anology is very confusing

When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.

What about when the sex is ... wrong?

When it's bad, it's life changing in a traumatic way.

Documentation: use x function Reality: x function depreciated

Don't be virgins, document things

When documentation is missing critical bits of information I don't know if its better than nothing. Spend ages and then have to raise a ticket saying its a bug because its not working as documented, when no documentation would have just been an instant ticket raised asking how its supposed to work. Because it turns out everything was working correctly and the customer had just set something up wrong but there was no documentation covering that bit so according to what we had, all looked good.