Why your Ansible repo has no documentation (and how to fix it without writing any)

I've been in platform engineering for four years. In that time I've worked with Ansible repos ranging from tidy and well-structured to the kind that make you question your career choices. Almost none of them had documentation. Not because the engineers were lazy. Not because nobody cared. But because writing infrastructure documentation is genuinely terrible work that sits at the intersection of two things engineers hate: context switching away from real work, and writing prose about things they