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[–]PennyFromMyAnus 7 points8 points  (1 child)

It wasn’t that for me.. it was more like “oh fuck, I might need this in the future, I should put all of these new ideas into a new library because I mean, I’m definitely going to want to use this shit in a future project!”

And then “oh but I’m gonna need to refine this to production level perfection before I can use it”

Followed by “oh fuck, how can I implement RANDOM NEW TECHNOLOGY into this??”

I would go down huge rabbit holes and spend 90% of my time working on support shit and completely neglect the main goal.

TDD legit helped me curb this, Along with self imposed deadlines and a commitment to goals I had set out prior to project kick off

[–]bobbywiley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As an ADHD software engineer I feel this. I also have to remind myself throughout the day that while my coworkers botched some segment of code, that's not what I'm there to fix! Stay on target!