I used to beat myself up about not writing much solo software. But the truth is I write little tools at work all the time, and those are almost always solo until I get buy in from others. I also introduce a lot of new or modified processes.

I just don’t sit at home writing more code very often, except to fix bugs I saw at work, or as interviewing prep.

But there was an article here recently that proposed a negative correlation between solo projects and teamwork. And that kind of explains a lot. People who wander off and do large things alone tend to be my more antisocial coworkers. Though I do occasionally see it from socially awkward coworkers who seem to want to be more engaged.

Writing software for other people without talking to them about it is kind of a weird plan.