What's your worst nightmare as a coder?

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[Quentin Sonrel]

Loosing my passion for coding (and computing in general).

Coding is really a passion to me but since I started working as professional dev I almost never code at home and I don't enjoy my professional projects as much as I used to enjoy the personal ones.

I sometimes feel like I'm wasting away my passion by having turned it into a job.

[Karl N. Redman]

I hate the following scenario (which I've been part of many times in the past):

them: Here's a new urgent project. How long will it take to build it?

me: 2 weeks for a hack, 3 weeks to get it right. When is it needed?

them: We've already sold it, billing has gone out and we promised to deliver it last Thursday.

me: So, what is my drop-dead delivery date?

them: Last Thursday.

[Olisa Wakwe]

Everything 😭

[Miloslav 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 Voloskov]

Typescript.

[Srikanth Anantharam]

Not being allowed to code.

[Rob Kendal {{☕}}]

Clients...

[Chad Kunde]

Hardware flaws that present as intermittent, inexplicable errors.

Basically, errors coming from below the lowest level I can inspect.

[Shannon Crabill]

That I'm not as good of a coder as I think I am, but no one will tell me or point me in the right direction.

[Sethu Senthil]

A light themed IDE

[Full Stack Geek]

Intermittent Bug, that's creepy shit

[restroika]

changes of business processes on last minute.

[Ry]

This might show my age a bit, but the requirement:
“Application must support Firefox And IE6. “

[Ry]

Having to build a strict XML data pipeline in Python or JavaScript.

[Carmen H. Andoh]

Upstream breakage {yells at cloud}

[K]

When I was an employee my biggest nightmares were technology choices made by other people which I had to live with.