DEV Community

Discussion on: What are the worst nightmares for devs? 🎃

Collapse
 
tomassirio profile image
Tomas Sirio

Working really hard on something that is then never used by nobody or even scrapped and forgotten into oblivion

Collapse
 
andrewbaisden profile image
Andrew Baisden

Ah hate when that happens. Once I was working on a new feature and then the CEO who's mind changes like the weather decided that he did not want it anymore...

Collapse
 
steinbring profile image
Joe Steinbring

I learned a long time ago that you need to separate the code that you write from your sense of professional self-worth. Write better code than you did yesterday and try to better someone's workflow but the app is the company's (not yours).

It took a major toilet manufacturer canning a Spanish-language HR app that I worked month on to learn that lesson.

Collapse
 
rfaugusto profile image
Rafael Alberti Cantoni Augusto

Joe,
Never thought of it that way. I know it seems pretty obvious, but "do today better than yesterday but the app is the company's" should bring us some relief...
I mean, if everybody thought of it that way, we would have so much people on the brink of war because of self-pride... :P