My coding skill improved a lot when I started wondering before implementing something how am I going to document this thing."Thing" here should have all the possible granularity. From the method to the whole product. For instance at the method level it prevents adding a method in the API that doesn't fit, or is unclear, before actually writing it. And if I really need to implement a method I cannot document (easily), it's a sign there is a design problem somewhere...
Automatically, the attitude "if I can't explain it, I don't write it" filters out bad code and conversely once I know how to document correctly a thing, it becomes simpler and cleaner to implement.
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