What Kills Developer’s Willpower?
Best ways to kill the software engineer willpower
Developers are under constant fire. Bugs, deadlines, and a lot of abstractions. Really easy to lose the willpower to code.
Why developers don’t like coding? Paychecks are good. You sit all day. You don’t do any physical labor.
What aggravates developers the most?
Meaningless coding jobs
For any software engineer, this is by far, the best way to lose interest. Lose interest in coding. You become a drag-n-drop developer.
Drop-in a plugin, add a few adjustments, job well done. It is easy money, but no valuable progress.
Freelance developers can’t pick work. They work on adult sites, scams, and Ponzi schemes.
Imagine your friends asking about work. You would feel upset about this, and leave programming for good.
Micromanagement
Ask developers every day for status reports. Even better, ask them every hour.
Push them to finish that feature. Ask them constantly about the progress.
Change scope. Change it mid-sprint. To agitate on the developer’s pain.
