The difficult bit here is the tendency for developers to detest these parts of the job. In my experience, most developers would prefer nothing more than to write code in a cave, never to share a word with anyone. Reviewing a PR, writing documentation, and sharing knowledge are all things taking time away from their passion.

I think this is the origin for much of the friction we experience in collaboration and documentation. It’s easy to build something, ship it, and move on. That’s the dream we are sold as well: changing the world, one line of code at a time, from our basements.

I would love to see more focus on writing in our industry. Unfortunately, I haven’t experienced much improvement here in the last decade of working in the industry, across several organizations.

The writers among us are quite the minority.