Being a programmer is just an endless struggle to go from the guy being told to RTFM to being the guy to tell others to RTFM.

@freemo What do you think is missing? / What would break the vicious cycle?

@jory I'm not sure its such a viscious cycle. As a coder reading the documentation to learn is effective. Just need good enough documentation that you can read and navigate it easily.

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@freemo We do have a culture of needing better documentation ;)

@jory Depends on the project. For many projects absolutely.

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