I feel development is not challenging anymore, is just “an obligation” for 9to5 survival.

Posted by greckzero@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 43 comments

My first experiences with development, more than 10 years ago, has been as simple as creating plugins for Wordpress.

Nothing revolutionary, for example table reservation system for a restaurant, an interactive map for locals of a franchise, small things that made you plan and learn new stuff, aside development, on how business work and it needs.

After some time other types of requirements appeared, data management (learning about stored procedures was a pain), asynchronous functions, errors prevention, integrations with sharepoint and other third party systems which not necessarily rely on APIs.

Fastforwarding to current days, I feel like with all the Frameworks, AWS components, even AI getting answers in miliseconds, all of the “fun” of development and learning is totally gone, and I feel the 9to5 became a survival on pleasing management rather than showing your capabilities and problem solving skills.

Actually the problem solving part, I feel is not valuable anymore, as we don’t solve anything. at all, just slap new features so the stakeholders see a company as a potential investment.

Also with the “ship as fast as possible” mentality, we dont really pause and appreciate the outcome of the code, becuase time not invested in a new development is lost time.

I just want to confirm it’s just not me, that development nowadays has nothing to do with the oldschool ways of working, and we probably will never get back that “feeling” of overcoming ourselves.

As always, have a good one!