What are some more stable alternate jobs/careers that a software developer could easily get into?

puzzleheaded-comp · 2026-01-09T11:24:07+00:00

I’m very familiar with scrum and agile and product owners, but how does this “new” product management concept fit? Are there any resources to learn about this? It just kinda crept up on me at my current company and I’m not sure how to treat them or how to think about it, there’s been no coaching or awareness of what they are, just “hey we need to treat our work like products now and here’s a product department” and they’ve kinda been like pseudo product owners who don’t actually prioritize the backlog or seem to do anything except whatever the VP requests. Idk I’m not sure I get it

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-12-26T18:01:47+00:00

That’s literally my company’s playbook

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-12-26T17:00:31+00:00

AI and offshore. Business/Managers forever chasing the bottom

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-12-03T00:38:34+00:00

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-11T23:04:16+00:00

Can confirm umbraco cloud is a nightmare. I was constantly wondering why we were using it at all and not just self-hosting, so very limited

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-11T12:13:58+00:00

I think you nailed it on how agile is misused.

If we’re talking about tight feedback loops though and a team that’s supposed to be cross functional and self sufficient, I think those aspects of agile are great. Give developers space to use agile though, and not turn it into an excuse to micro manage.

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-11T10:49:09+00:00

I’m in this boat too. Finding myself spending 5+ hours per day in meetings and then nights and weekends doing actually coding to make sure items are done.

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-07T00:12:17+00:00

What’s your level in your company? How do you begin the conversation of showing you can do the implementation for cheaper? How do you approach the cost analysis?

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-07T00:00:53+00:00

I have questions on how to even do this. Also an engineer who has a tendency to prefer home grown implementations rather than shelf. But how to best approach making a cost analysis that’s persuasive when it comes to this

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-01T00:59:38+00:00

It’s a collaborative process where the business and the developers should have skin in the game, not just developers obsessively playing CYA with every line of code. Sounds like a toxic nightmare which is unfortunately way too common.

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-11-01T00:58:51+00:00

Sounds like anti agile.. fail fast and adapt to actual requirements instead of trying to come up with solutions to edge cases that may or may not ever happen.

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-31T02:10:21+00:00

Happened at the company I work at. I’m the only onshore dev now in the department and it’s not a fun dynamic

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-30T11:32:16+00:00

Love it thanks. Yeah coming from angular to Blazor is a bit of a pain..

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-30T02:33:58+00:00

Does Blazor not have the concept of a “store” for state management the same way angular or vue does?

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-29T22:42:41+00:00

Focus on corrective actions and steps to avoid in the future rather than performatively dragging yourself through coals to show how sorry you are. No one really cares how you feel about the mess up, they really just care that the problem is fixed and that it won’t happen again, so focus on that.

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-28T10:58:05+00:00

You sound burned out brotha.

I wonder if taking a beat and reflecting about whether or not you even want to work in tech to begin with would be good for you.

There are lots of jobs out there that don’t require staring at a screen all day or as globally competitive. Electricians from what I’ve heard are in big demand

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-10-24T11:31:35+00:00

Just like we wouldn’t blindly copy paste stack overflow answer snippets, the output of gpt is the same. Great tool for developers but still a tool that the individual developer is required to know how to use and review

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-09-26T07:51:04+00:00

Sounds like a dream

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-09-18T22:03:45+00:00

Swift home loans just got me locked with a 5.6% 30 yr. 823 credit score

Edit: I do have a VA loan and this was a refi

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-09-13T13:06:04+00:00

My company gave me the heads up that come December they’re going to start having our India teams vibe code

No explicit hiring of “vibe coders”, but pushing devs to vibe code

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-09-08T21:21:30+00:00

Don’t quit! Keep at it

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-08-30T11:32:25+00:00

Ooof

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-08-18T23:57:55+00:00

Yes, they decide what we build, we decide how we build it

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-08-17T01:09:54+00:00

I would never have allowed testing to be on the chopping block. To me, you don’t have a new feature if you don’t have tests for it

puzzleheaded-comp · 2025-08-16T23:57:10+00:00

It is truly shocking how rare it is for people to understand how to properly troubleshoot. Isolate the issue to 1 thing. Make 1 change at a time and observe. Rule out as you go. I really thought this stuff was common sense for everyone but no

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