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Most developers I have worked with in the corporate world refuse to put things in writing. I have found the people that cannot write also cannot plan or architect software, which is then predictive of the output quality, process, and speed of delivery. It seems this is a form of executive functioning that when absent limits approaches to known patterns and oral discussions.

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There's a saying in the physics world, that you don't understand something unless you can explain it to a barmaid. There's also a traditional belief that you really discover the gaps in your understanding when you try to teach it.

Programming languages are intended to be human readable, so it's not entirely surprising that if you can't explain something to humans, chances are you might not be explaining it very well to the computer either.

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