ADHD and programming is a fun mix.
"We do this because once it's automated it'll be so much faster, I swear! We'll make up the dev time in... ~5 years if no further adjustments are needed~"
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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I put really boring tasks into the backlog to motivate my developers to do everything else faster.
Huh? If they’d do everything else faster, they’d only get faster to the boring stuff. How is that an incentive?
“I just want to use rsync and inotify to automatically sync my data to my NAS so I never again have to forget backing up before doing something stupid. I hate coding and I’m terrible at it but it’ll be fine! It’s 2 commands, HOW HARD COULD IT BE? I’m sure 10 lines of bash can do it.”
Aaaaaand there went my whole weekend 💀 💀 💀
AGAIN
Why do I keep doing this to myself? 😭
(But it works! Kinda. Well it’s a matter of perspective, who can say what objectively defines the concept of “working”? It does SOMETHING. So technically it does works. CQFD)
And don’t get me started on maintenance and dependencies. On a big enough project that’s a job for life
I'm 10+ years into a project that i thought would take like a few months - *face palm*
What's it like having children?
No children, just ADHD
So no pets then?
A project at work is evidently at least 25 years and counting of being about 6 months away from being successful.
oh i hate that.
I was promised to work on projects, projects by definition have an end date, which would mean i'd work on new projects after a given time, because old projects are done.
the projects?
- keeping this boring ass old product running!
- building a product and keeping it running.
i don't mind the keeping it running part so much, i mind that those are my "projects" until someone decides they don't want the product anymore.
hells for boring ass old project, there is basically zero new stuff, just cleaning up messes earlier devlopers left.
I need this on my tombstone 😭
No ADHD (That I know of) but sometimes coming up with a way to automate a task is actually fun so even if it takes longer than just doing the task its worth it to have to do less of that task in the future.
We don't do this not because it is hard,
But because we thought it would be hard
Me and Fromsoft games.
I do this not because it is easy, but because I am hard.