Developers Should Avoid Being The Sucker Whilst Creating Software

Survival guide to software development

Ben "The Hosk" Hosking
5 min readJul 12, 2023
Photo by Hester Qiang on Unsplash

Sucker developers burnout whilst trying to outwork their problems

Developers are suckers for a great sounding project and a plan longer than a few months. Time goes quickly in software development and developers never have enough of it.

The non-technical people think they have put too much time in the plan, whilst the developers should think there isn’t enough time in the plan.

Software development is like a jungle, its full of pitfalls and traps for developers to stumble into if they don’t have their eyes open.

Software development is a fast-paced and evolving world of technology, its easy for developers to fall into the trap of being the sucker and being taken advantage of.

What is a sucker?

Mangers to the left of me

Consultants to the right

Here I am stuck creating software with you

What is a sucker and why are developers in danger of becoming one?

a person who believes everything they…

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Ben "The Hosk" Hosking

Technology philosopher | Software dev → Solution architect | Avid reader | Life long learner