The Institutionalization of the Software Professional
It happened to me. I remember some years ago, I could sit down on a Friday night, throw some code together over a weekend, and by Sunday evening, I’d have a working prototype to test an idea. It was messy, but it lived. Lately, it’s been different. Even with the massive boost from AI tooling, which should be making me faster, I’ve found myself paralyzed. I spent a full weekend recently not coding, but thinking. I was obsessing over the “best” directory structure, how to optimize my database entities for long term growth, and a dozen other architectural patterns that honestly make zero sense for a weekend project. ...