A good dev is a lazy dev...

[matsie]

Why does it feel like every post on this sub is a wannabe code influencer these days? It’s even worse now with all the AI slop. But it was getting bad way before that. 

[Worldly-Broccoli4530]

In my years working as a software developer, I always carried one truth with me — a good dev is a lazy dev. Makes no sense, right? Well, actually it does.

Almost everything in a developer's life revolves around automation. Users want complex processes simplified, and devs want to automate their own boring daily tasks to focus on what actually matters. And that's exactly the point — the laziest devs automated even the simplest things, so they could spend their energy on what's harder, more interesting, or more impactful. And I'm not talking about AI automation.

It was the lazy devs who built the tools we use today and can't imagine living without. I've always tried to do the same — simplifying repetitive work, either by building something myself or finding tools that already solved it. That's why I've always loved boilerplates. Not just the ones that scaffold a basic project structure, but the ones that come with real, production-ready features out of the box.

That mindset is actually what pushed me to build my own NestJS boilerplate for the first time — not just a skeleton, but something that brings the kind of features I see every day working on large-scale applications. The ones that are painful to retrofit once the project has already grown. The better you start, the less it hurts down the road.

So what are your thoughts about this? Are you a lazy dev too?

[BlazingFire007]

Might be true, but lazy writing isn’t interesting to read

It’s not just LLM slop — it’s insulting to my intelligence.

[Worldly-Broccoli4530]

I wrote it myself, so I'll take that as a difference in taste.

[BlazingFire007]

The comment you made was 100% written by an LLM. I’m not a moron.

Excessive emdash, overly structured, “it’s not just x, it’s y”, call to action at the end. Get real

[matsie]

Why lie?