this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2025
669 points (94.8% liked)

Programmer Humor

24214 readers
400 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] umbraroze@piefed.social 118 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Documentation is like sex: You're not getting any"

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn haha, this made me laugh out loud

[–] db2@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Someone's never read instructions autotranslated from Chinese and not checked for accuracy.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago

Well, sometimes I ask questions to the AI and makes the same sense.

[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Literally me yesterday trying to decipher Baidu’s PaddleOCR docs. Have half a mind to aim Claude Code at the URL and just be like ‘plz help’

[–] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Absolutely not. I'd rather have no documentation and start from scratch than be gaslit by an entire team of people telling me that the very obviously wrong documentation is correct and has been correct for 30 years

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think there's a difference between bad and wrong. Wrong documentation is incorrect. Bad documentation isn't really incorrect, it's just poorly executedb and mostly unhelpful.

[–] docAvid@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, incorrect documentation is clearly bad, so...

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seemed more like the problem was the gaslighting than the documentation.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

I can name a few examples of this

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That documentation sounds like marriage.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've had to use outdated documentation that made the problem worse. So I guess bad documentation is like bad, unprotected sex with a lot lizard that leaves you with an itching or burning sensation.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago

Completely incorrect - bad documentation can be actively harmful, wasting your time with its inaccuracies.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Then you haven’t seen bad documentation (or had that sex you regret).

[–] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In general it’s supposed to be something good so it shouldn’t be harmful, but ofc exceptions exist, especially with sex, sadly…

Bad often equals "not super good" in this context

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Incidentally, both bad sex and code documentation both involve std vectors.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This meme was made by someone who has never had truly bad sex/documentation.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is getting a face full of pussy that stinks like a litter box better than no pussy at all? 🤔

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Good example! My point exactly!

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Yup, op has never had the joy of the docs lying to them.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Respectfully disagree. Sometimes the documentation is so bad that you have more questions than answers and even then, what they provide still doesn't really explain how to do something with enough details. It's all literally shot in the dark and you're just left with leap of faith. * cough * Sonicwall * cough *

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Last week I spent a day trying to figure out why the thing in the damn documentation doesn't work.

Turns out, for that project "latest" doesn't point to their latest release, but to what they currently have on their dev branch. And apparently they changed the whole module around since the last release.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago
[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bad documentation could land you in prison.

Bad sex is just horrible all around.

not sure what this post is on about

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would say bad sex can land you in a prison too.

[–] Owlboi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

When it's bad you think "Fuck this, I can do it better by myself."

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bad sex is not better than no sex.... Wtf... :)

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

the person who wrote this hasn't had bad sex yet

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I guess its also our culture where sex is seen as the most important thing in life. So everyone is convinced their entire value consists of how much mating they are doing. Maybe that would be true if we were breeding animals but we are not.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

It's different from person to person. The most consistent thing I've found is people trying to fit each other into a cultural box

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

weird, i do not know of this culture and I'm glad cuz I'd be worthless

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As an asexual person this anology is very confusing

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

As an asexual person, you get just as much sex as most developers get documentation.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe it can be translated into something else, like, "Documentation is like toilet paper, when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's better than nothing"? Or, "Documentation is like clothes, even if they are bad it's better than nothing", or "Documentation is like having something you need, it's better to have the thing you need even if is not good, than to not have the thing you need at all"?

[–] Jiggs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

I like the analogy with toilet paper. Because when its bad, the very thing that was supposed to help you, got you covered in shit with no back out plan, making it that much worse.

Very fitting

As a sexual person, I agree

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

When it’s really bad, it can be far worse than nothing.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

When it's bad, it's life changing in a traumatic way.

What about when the sex is ... wrong?

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Documentation: use x function Reality: x function depreciated

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

Don't be virgins, document things

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

When documentation is missing critical bits of information I don't know if its better than nothing. Spend ages and then have to raise a ticket saying its a bug because its not working as documented, when no documentation would have just been an instant ticket raised asking how its supposed to work. Because it turns out everything was working correctly and the customer had just set something up wrong but there was no documentation covering that bit so according to what we had, all looked good.

load more comments
view more: next ›