it's time for a change

(plus i make courses for them)

This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer.

[hypergraphic]

My goal for 2025 is to have my evenings feel more like 1995. More reading books and less, or preferably no doomscrolling.

[scgordy]

Prime I can’t really articulate how you’ve helped me see things differently. I’ve always been fascinated by programming but I never thought I was smart enough to do it. Now I know I can if I put in the hard work AND just because the work is hard that doesn’t mean it’s not fun. Thanks man. Here’s to 2025.

[ShamimKeshani]

You’re the reason I ditched VSCode and switched to Neovim 2.5 years ago—and I’ve loved every moment of it. You’re the reason I pushed myself to become twice the developer I once was. You’re inspiring millions to stay disciplined this year. Wishing you all the success and fulfillment you’re aiming for in 2025. Thanks for everything!

[waterbuckit]

Really can't thank you enough for all of the advice and effort you put into your videos. I've learnt a tremendous amount from you, evolved as a developer. I've been working as a developer full time for four years now, and for at least three of those, you've been right there, making me think differently, helping me to become more disciplined.

Thanks for everything, Prime.

[MrEW]

I want slow software on fast machines to go away

[kungfurykeyboard]

mah boy has started month sprints.
with a sprint review at the end 😅😂😅

[AdamMcFadyen]

Laravel hoodie! ❤good going on the discipline! I'm doing something similar, waking up early and staying sober...

Currently finding that my level of sobriety is directly linked to the amount of BS I'm willing to tolerate. More soberiety, less self doubt & less BS.

Keeping track of the goals, successes, and failures is key to building a real sense of accountability outside of a demanding work environment.

Live in the past, be depressed, live in the future, be anxious, live in the present, now that's the ticket. Let the silence do the heavy lifting.

Thanks for all the great content, here's to a wonderful 2025

[JoelPiccoli]

I'm right there with you man! My goal in 2025 is to improve my focus and discipline skills! To be able to do more with less effort. I'm kinda lost there on how I can achieve that. But for sure, prioritizing things is a good way to start! Rock on in 2025 man!

[Joggeltime]

Man, that video gives me hope. You inspire me, to be a better version of myself. The view of mentallity rather than goals is something I never thought about. Although my life looks different than yours, I will try to apply it in 2025. You're really the Primea-gem today. Thank you!

[bseabaugh]

That is almost exactly my resolution from 2024. I got myself a planner, specifically a planner that had sections for quarterly goals, monthley goals, and space to reflect about my progress the prior month. I did this planner exercise specifically to help me trim out a lot of the cheap dopamine activities that would suck up my free time and drain me of any motivation (like midless instagram scrolling, shorts scrolling, and mindless reddit). The act of writing my thoughts and plans down changed hiw I approached my free time and helped me improve this past year way more than any other year in my life. I of course wasn't perfect about it all year, so now this year my resolution is to keep it up and improve just a little more than last year. Great resolution, that change in thinking is exactly what I needed and I think it would help you out as well.

[jeffrey]

I work as a data scientist and my team just got offered a single copilot license, i passed it off because I am happy just using my personal claude license from time to time but dont want any autocomplete. My coworker is using it now and he was reporting it is really great and makes him more efficient.
Then recently he needed me to find some bug in his code and he ended up screen sharing and coding for like 60 minutes. His whole coding workflow was only prompting in his jupyter notebook. almost no real coding anymore. even doing one liner list comprehensions or writing to a file he prompted the copilot. i was so shocked. He just finished his masters this year and i feel this is just gonna make him decline super hard.
Using AI to understand some concepts or let ai write you some simple examples that you can then understand and adapt to your workflow and you really learn way faster and the stuff actually sticks. But Copilot or copy pasta the code directly and you'll just get fked

[redasalmi]

Have you ever had a dream that you, um, you had, your, you- you could, you’ll do, you- you wants, you, you could do so, you- you’ll do, you could- you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

[pizzafish]

When I worked towards this, I always had to start small. It started with me deciding to make my bed every morning. From there I decided to do 20 pushups before I made my bed. You can scale up from there, knowing you can scale back down if you need too.

[DrDrero]

Atomic Habits, great book that taught me to look at goals not as tasks but as habits. Kind of like having discipline, one needs to establish habits, not accomplish goals.

[gownerjones]

You're the only programming streamer I can stand.

[JonnyLove]

Single dad here without any backup, just started full time in the software engineering field less than a year ago, trying to work on a big project in the evenings after the kids are out. I will say I that watching a couple episodes of squid games or related self care activities are definitely needed but they can easily get carried away. I think knowing when to slow down and take a break and being aware of how much of a break one needs is more important than simply denying breaks or guilt tripping oneself. Always look for the balance. Happy New Year!

[FrancescoLuzzi]

This video spoke to me, I've also been feeling kinda lost after changing job, being less stressed at work makes me loosey goosey and non focused on the core of the problems at hand, more distracted in general.
I'll also try to journal myself, thanks for the inspiration and good luck!

[xDeFcnx]

This year has been the year I found this channel, it has made me a better dev, speaking of discipline this month has also been my longest coding streak, of 18 days in a row, with an average of 5 hours a day, i hope to continue this to 2025, any advice is welcome.

[Bitooba]

Thank you, Prime. You don't know how much your videos mean to me and others. Thank you, and I wish you a wonderful New Year!

[rickyc]

I'm tried of LinkedIn cringe. I just want a normal life in 2025