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Re:Ask HN: Love fixing bugs but don't enjoy coding anymore. Burnout? on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#22059194)

That sounds like an issue a close friend of mine has and he refers to it as a blank page problem. He can modify existing projects but has issues starting a new one. And the approach you suggested works for him - he starts with a very rough and broken poc and then fixes it bit by bit.

I believe my problem is different. Once everything is figured out I lose interest. So if there problem requires a lot of thinking and investigation where you end up changing few lines of code, I love it. But if I see a ticket, the solutions is obvious to me and the rest of the time has to be spent coding, it just feels boring.

Ask HN: Love fixing bugs but don't enjoy coding anymore. Burnout?

Posted by markbg on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:22PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I've been a software engineer for around 20 years now, doing mostly backend (from C++ and Go to PHP; and DevOps stuff like networking or k8s). I had offers of transitioning to mgmt but tried it once and I believe I was a mediocre manager at most. I'm an introvert and like a doing technical things rather than having management meetings or 1:1s.Anyway, I remember back in the days I could...

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