The latest articles on DEV Community by Mike (@mikemits). https://dev.to/mikemits https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4224955%2F24d7fe4f-b9cc-4b8b-bc58-b75c240ad25e.png https://dev.to/mikemits en Mike Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:33:24 +0000 https://dev.to/mikemits/figuring-out-the-goal-1945 https://dev.to/mikemits/figuring-out-the-goal-1945 <p>I've started out programming as a teen who just wanted to create scripts that would</p> <p>do cool and useful stuff. Throughout some time I was learning web dev and making personal side projects. The time was passing and I was getting better at coding. But one day and after that more and more often I started getting burned out, I could not program anything, I did not feel the fire of it. Some time has passed and when I thought I was recovered and excited about stuff again I've hit one more burnout and some time later hit it once again. </p> <p>And now I'm sitting here and thinking how to escape my current burnout.</p> <p>Would be glad to hear other experience in such situations.</p> <p>P.S. I suppose my burnouts were caused by just not having concrete goals, my whole goal was to build things for myself or get a job (though getting a job did not excite me that much, just because I probably will not find purpose in doing for something I don't see potential in, at least on an average job).</p> <p>P.P.S. When AI started to do really well in coding, the situation has worsened as I did not enjoy "AI coding" that much.</p> burnout programming career ai