I don't write codebase documentation anymore 0 ▲ rogs 1 hour ago · 43 min read8686 words · Tech · hide · 0 comments Hello everyone 👋 Confession time: in 10+ years of writing software, I have never kept documentation up to date. Not once. And I’ve tried! Confluence spaces, GitHub wikis, a docs/ folder, READMEs that start strong and stop being true three sprints later. It always goes the same way. Someone writes a nice page, the code moves, nobody touches the page, and six months later a new person reads it, believes it, and loses an afternoon. Updating docs always felt like a chore I owed someone, and I pay chores about as reliably as you’d expect. A while back I started reading some really cool wikis that a paid AI service had generated for a few projects. Architecture overviews, flow diagrams, a page for every subsystem, all built from the code. I loved them. What I didn’t love was that they lived on someone else’s platform, and I couldn’t shape what they said or how they said it. So I thought: I want my own. In my repo, in plain markdown, maintained by an agent, updated on every push. So I built… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.