Still writing code documentation yourself? Yikes!

Author

Hanna Stechenko
August 22, 2025

👋 Hey Devs,

Let’s be real: we all know code documentation is important. We also all know it usually ends up neglected, outdated, or straight-up wrong.

It’s not because we’re lazy, it’s because most documentation systems were never built for the actual pace of software development. Code evolves daily. Teams pivot weekly. Context evaporates instantly.

The result?

  • READMEs that reference flags nobody uses anymore.

  • Inline comments that rot before the next sprint ends.

  • Diagrams that didn’t survive the pivot.

And worst of all: misleading docs. Because bad docs are worse than no docs. That’s the start of the documentation death spiral:

👉 Docs fall out of sync → We stop trusting them → We stop using them → We stop maintaining them → Repeat.

The missing Piece: context that sticks 🧠

Docs aren’t just READMEs or API refs. Real documentation is context.

  • Why this library, not that one?

  • What trade-off did we accept here?

  • Who asked for this weird behavior?

You usually explain that in Slack, a PR comment, or a quick call and it’s gone. Lost forever. That’s exactly why Pieces Workstream Activity exists. It captures those decisions, conversations, and fixes as they happen, so your documentation reflects not just what you built, but why.

👉 If you haven’t tried Pieces Workstream Activity yet, now’s the time.

Every 30 minutes (or on-demand), it rolls up:

  • What you worked on, problems solved, and solutions chosen

  • Key discussions with teammates and their implications

  • Files, code, links, and references you touched

  • Next steps, unfinished tasks, and reminders

So when you need to explain why a decision was made or onboard someone new, you don’t start from scratch. You start from memory.

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Happy coding! 

  • The Pieces Team

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