A Manifesto Against Developers

I hate you because:

• You focus on the features of your IDE instead of the features your client/user needs.
• You consider typing at the keyboard as thinking.
• You waste countless hours manually testing your code.
• You spend more time struggling with frameworks than delivering value to end users.
• You code for hours without asking yourself, “What am I really doing?”
• You naively believe that technologies and tools will solve your problems.
• You naively believe that a good algorithm is more important than a good understanding of requirements.
• You naively believe that your intuition is enough for writing good code.
• You naively believe that you can manage the complexity of the system piece you’re working on.
• You agree to unrealistic deadlines.
• You write poor code and rationalize it with various excuses (because there is no time).
• In your head, you create code snippets without really knowing what needs to be done.
• You guess what needs to be done rather than clarifying.
• You mindlessly follow the technology you use.
• You don’t understand the tools and technologies you use.
• You isolate yourself in your piece of code, breaking contact with the world.
• You think it’s all the fault of managers or clients and believe you can’t do anything about it.

… even though I love you because I am a programmer myself.

(Text translated and moved from original old blog automatically by AI. May contain inaccuracies.)