Quality Drift in Documentation: How It Starts, How It Compounds, How to Stop It
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Nobody ships a documentation project with the intention of letting quality degrade. It happens anyway. Not in a single event, but through hundreds of small decisions — a shortcut here, an exception there, a new writer who follows the patterns they see instead of the patterns you intended. This is quality drift, and by the time it becomes visible, the cost of fixing it has multiplied.