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Why Being a Software Developer Sucks in 2025

PRANTA Dutta on April 19, 2025

Nothing feels like anything, and Stack Overflow might as well be a museum. Welcome to 2025. You thought flying cars would be a thing ...
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Balaji Chandrasekaran

Finally, A developer becomes blog writer and he successfully overcome life using all the experience he undergone being a developer.

Interesting post 🔥

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Subrata Panda

Nailed it bro... I can relate to all these. It's funny but fact. Life moves on... 😀👌

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Branden Hernandez
  1. Meanwhile, Chad in DevRel posted a TikTok explaining Kubernetes using pizza metaphors and got promoted.

Who hurt you?

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Matt

Very grateful for the positivity! I'm starting school for video game design in a few weeks. Made games as a kid 20 years ago. Only got back into it a year ago, made an awesome (to me) top down shooter, and recently a mobile app w/ ai integration in Unity.... My brain has been thinking in code for most my life, so it just feels so right to be building things again. Scary times, but as you say, it's like a superpower and a drug :)

Cheers

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Colin Dooley

x. Everyone is juiced on AI but not everyone admits it.
x + 1. Believing that nearly all output has some sprinkling of AI generated output

Good article,very relatable...

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Mumbly • Edited

You forgot to tell about the 'chief architect' who wrote a line of code 20 years ago (php, fortran, cobol), spends most of his time in high hierarchy levels meetings, or on draw.io, inventing ways to complicate your life to implement his "latest ideas" drawn on hyper complexity diagrams violating 90% all of security standards rules. He does not understand why RFCs where invented (but refers to them constantly), asks you to "reinterpret" them "if possible", to "meet the needs". He also has the habit to steal any of your construcitve propositions, making them hims. These are not your ideas anymore

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Jakub “havlli” Havlíček

Its even worse for people that are trying to land a junior position. Even that i code in different languages and am familiar with X different tools, made a hobby and freelance projects over 5 years, try to stay in shape by coding and commiting everyday, i still feel like its imposible and only way for me is highly competetive freelancing, and that is verry demoralizing.

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@exciteresearch

Funny; worthy quick read. Thank you.

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vinoth

Crying in the corner hoping no one notices😕

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SAJID BHAT

😃 fun facts

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Andy Moggo

You'll receive a call once everything has broken down

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Sayedabutahir • Edited

Literally Engaging bro and the whole things are relatable

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Anita Olsen

I have had my share of existential crisis over the years 😳

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JWP

I explained this same thing in a bit different way here:

The Platform Explosion

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Madhurima Rawat

Relatable × 💯 I have seen an unhealthy number of node modules folder deployed 📂 😂😅

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Mumbly

lol you just described it

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Darius

This is by far the best read I've ever had on this site and I'm glad I found it.Thank You

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A M

Have you all noticed this is written by an AI?
The timing on the jokes got me

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Praweg Koirala

Fun read ! So True tho. We all have that love-hate relationship with AI.

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Lv_Mveexus

Amazing, had me in tears from the beginning ( ≧ᗜ≦)

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Markus Gallagher

Hardly ever laughed this much while reading a blog post - thankx for that!