Coding Practices

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.