It helps you get a sense of your application's schema, as well as any outliers to that schema. Particularly useful when you inherit a codebase with poor test coverage, or poor
db.users.insert({name: "Tom", bio: "A nice guy.", pets: ["monkey", "fish"], someLegacyField: "I like Ike!"});
db.users.insert({name: "Dick", bio: "I swordfight."});