Your Documentation is Lying to Your Users

Let me be direct: your documentation is probably lying to your users right now. Not maliciously. Not intentionally. But lying nonetheless. That endpoint you deprecated three months ago? Still documented as active. That config flag you renamed in v2.3? Still showing the old name. That "quick start" guide that takes 47 steps because your product evolved? Every day, developers hit your docs, follow instructions that no longer work, and quietly conclude your product is broken. They don't file a bug. They don't complain. They just leave. The Math Doesn't Work Here's the uncomfortable reality most teams avoid: Documentation decays faster than you can maintain it. Think about it. Every feature ship, every API change, every UI update, every renamed variable creates potential doc drift. In a healthy engineering org shipping weekly? That's 50+ potential documentation landmines per year. Per product. Now look at your docs team. One person? Two? Part-time contributors who'd rather be coding? The m