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What’s the Hardest Part About Being a Developer?

As developers, we possess this amazing skill to create and innovate through code. But let’s be honest, this life isn’t always as fulfilling as it seems on the surface. It often comes with tough trade-offs, whether it's long hours, burnout, constant learning, or the pressure to deliver.

What are some of the biggest challenges you've faced as a developer? I'd love to hear from everyone—whether it's personal experiences, frustrations, or unexpected hurdles. Let’s start a conversation and really dig into the realities of this career.

What do you struggle with? How do you manage it?

What’s Really Holding Developers Back?

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JCLeftie

Imposter syndrome.
Failing to break things down into manageable parts.
Misunderstandings and miscommunication with your team and your stakeholders.

Sometimes we see ourselves as superheroes, but when we get stuck somewhere we tough it out and instead of using our people and networking skills to collaborate and solve a problem, we incur additional mental strain trying to figure it out on our own.

Just an observation. ❤️

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Kofi • Edited

It's interesting that as devs we go through many different vectors of issues when building applications.

What do you currently use or do to solve this problem?

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JCLeftie

The truth? Therapy and professional coaching.

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Saami abbas Khan

There are some challenges, but if you like what you're doing, you can tackle them with some practice. For me, debugging is one of them. Other than that, a lot of things come up, like when sometimes I get stuck on a problem and I can't focus, things get worse. And when you find the solution, it's so simple that you start thinking, "I got stuck on such an easy problem—it’s hilarious!" (Once I got stuck and found out I was passing one method into another in the declaration part.)

Such things happen quite often if you're not that experienced, like me. I recommend writing your idea down on paper (if you write it down, you've already solved half the problem) or using any other tool (like a blueprint) so that you'd know what you have to do. Documenting your idea will help a lot.

Practice is the key to success—practice, practice, and more practice. Stay consistent. You don't need to work long hours; just stay consistent and try to document your journey, or the problems you faced, somewhere (could be a diary, or even better, something like Notion).

Happy Coding 😎

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Kofi

I definitely agree , this field is about using consistency and resilience to gain understanding of the fundamentals to writing code and just like climbing a mountain, you don't see the horizon until you reach the top.

Practice is how we get better , never giving up is how we gain passion.