Why Developers Write

Explore why writing is a crucial skill for developers beyond coding. Understand how strong writing habits help communicate complex ideas, support remote collaboration, and scale your impact in teams and organizations. This lesson highlights the professional benefits of writing in software engineering roles and encourages developing it as a career skill.

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Write for work

Scale your ability to communicate efficiently
Writing is the cache
The joy of sharing knowledge

Write for work

The most straightforward reason why developers write is that they have to for work:

Developers have to write emails, code reviews, issues, and pull requests.
They have to write proposals for projects they want to work on.
They also have to explain blockers and outages when things go wrong. If you can write a great explanation demonstrating you understand the root cause and how to fix it, that can add a silver lining to any mistake.
They certainly have to write self-assessments for promotions and peer reviews for their teammates!
Senior developers are expected to write design docs before any implementation takes place.
Some companies even evaluate developer impact based on their ability to communicate effectively with internal and

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