5 Biggest Developer Mistakes You Are Making That Waste Your Time

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As developers we have a unique ability to automate many mundane tasks by writing a simple program. This ability leads many developers to look for other ways to optimize their programming, but all too often these optimizations are actually massive time wastes. In this video I will be sharing with you the five things developers do that they think are productive but actually waste their time.

1. Over customizing your editor.
2. Over optimizing code from the beginning
3. Over designing/architecting code
4. Manual testing
5. Refactoring code that works just fine and is not affecting anything else just to make it "newer"

🧠 Concepts Covered:

- Why developers do tasks that waste their time.
- How to avoid wasting your time as a developer
- The best ways to optimize your time as a developer

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[nxli]

1. Open Youtube instead of work.
2. Watch WebDev talk about why I'm a bad developer instead of work.
3. Write Youtube comments instead of work.

[abdoutanta]

1:40 Wasting too much time configuring and customizing you editor and workflow instead of actual coding.

3:31 Over-engineering your projects based on “what ifs” and extreme use cases.

5:22 Over-optimizing your code (tiny performance gains that are not needed ...).

6:53 Manually testing you code instead of implementing automatic testing.

8:38 Refactoring code over and over again even if it’s working fine.

[Askbowe]

I think one of the biggest mistakes.. You did not talk about is .. Reinventing the wheel ..creating functionality that is already out there

[ricko]

I spend like 10min just thinking in a variable name 🥺

[MaxProgramming]

It is nice to see more nice video editing by you for sponsors. Your video looks more and more professional these days

[colonelb]

I totally agree about the customizing IDE issue. Many software companies you may work for will have required tools or plugins and if you get really used to "however you have it at home", then you'll have challenges moving back and forth to your work-issued laptop, etc.

[kaushikrishi]

I have wasted many hours customising my editor. But finally what i felt was that the default theme and settings that vscode ships are the best.

[sumanbandopadhyay]

Manually testing and over complexing a code and over optimising..
So well pointed..
The drawback of manual testing mentioned was so to the point, people just cant overlook.
Thanks..

[stevedunn]

Thank you for this video! Started to write code a year ago and probably wasted more time on over engineering and testing - a death spiral that made me crazy at times - than creating functionality. Great kick in the ass advice.

[chirilcugureanu]

-Watching YouTube instead of coding
-Playing a mobile game to much
-Being lazy

[grayhat_x]

6:53 that overtesting habit of mine is present since Ive had first OS course, where I had to implement a functional kernel.
Only 1 tinyyy error and whole system breaks, and you have no way to immediately tell what it is because of concurrent threads...
Glad Im done with that course, it was real hell...

[daemyno]

You can summarize "almost" all that you've said (except for testing) with "Over-engineering"

[jenowin]

I admit that I couldn't stop customizing vim and emacs for months. I need to do what I am supposed to do. thanks, WDS

[KylePrinsloo]

Quality, actionable advice as always man. Thank you!

[briandesign]

*watches dev vid about wasting time while wasting time watching dev vid

[synaikido]

Great video! Manual testing mistake as well here instead of automating the conditionals or steps of the testing 🙂 will do that in the future! ;) thanks a lot for all the great and useful content you do! 🙂

[offroaders]

Great video! Those were valid points to look out for 👀
Thanks for the heads up!

[_robynhood_]

Thank you so much for these tips! Every developer needs to know this!

[IsaacYongMusic]

Guilty as charged for 2, 4 and 5. But I haven’t learn about unit testing back then and now I’m regretting all the time I wasted testing the codes manually! Great video as always Kyle 👍

[brovkin]

Kyle, this is a good video, thank you! By the way, where is your guitar?)