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What are you working through?
A loss
A problem
A struggle
An emotion
Something difficult
Something perplexing
Something that takes a lot of effort
Something that doesn't fit neatly into an easy description
What are you working through, and how is it going?
I’m a software developer and I’m really struggling with accepting that I get paid to produce no actual value to anyone. I’m not given enough time to think about what I’m doing and do it the right way, I’m only given time to produce flaky slop that breaks in production because its rushed and not well thought out and everyone around me is producing the same level of code. Production is on fire every day and theres no end in sight.
This isn’t the first time Ive been rushed. Ive been rushed at every single company Ive ever worked for and during the boom in 2020-2021 I hopped jobs twice trying to find one that wouldn’t rush me and when I did, the startup got gobbled up by a giant tech company who then rushed me. I love software development, but I feel stuck. My current company cares more about telling people we have an AI product than it does about actually having a good working AI product.
Is there any software developer out there right now who’s actually happy at their job?