𝟕 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐲 1️⃣ Writing code is easy. Maintaining code is hard. 2️⃣ Clean code > clever code. 3️⃣ Debugging teaches more than tutorials. 4️⃣ Most bugs are small mistakes. 5️⃣ Reading code is a real skill. 6️⃣ Performance matters after scale. 7️⃣ The best developers never stop learning. What would you add to this list? 👇 #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding #Developers
Communication is as important as coding.
Great list. I’d add one more: most real problems in software aren’t about code - they’re about architecture, communication, and understanding the problem correctly.
I can agree that learning to read code is a game changer. When you can’t reach your sr.devs on a project it’ll unlock something entirely different in you
Senior Software Developer, Tech Lead | JAVA, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL | 20+ years experience
1moThese ‘rules’ are hilarious. - Apparently being "clever" is a crime now. Everyone whines about ‘smart code,’ but nobody calls out the real problem: code that’s incoherent, sloppy, or written by people who shouldn’t be near a keyboard. For someone incompetent, even a for loop looks like wizardry, so what’s the plan, fire the capable devs and keep the ones who struggle with basics? - And let’s not pretend performance doesn’t matter. On trivial projects you can afford to ignore it, sure. But in enterprise systems, dismissing performance is just a slow march toward an unusable product. A perfectly readable but useless system is still useless. Keep pretending performance doesn’t matter and watch how fast clients walk away from your perfectly readable project. You say maintaining code is hard. Let me clarify something: "maintenance" only exists when the product actually works. If it runs so slowly that clients can’t use it, there is no "maintenance" phase. There’s only the trash bin. And that’s exactly where the lack of smart engineers, and the obsession with readability over performance, will take you. So the expectation is that the "best developers" are the ones who aren’t smart or clever? Bold strategy. Good luck with it.