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title: "7 Habits That Quietly Made Me a 10x Developer (No, Not ChatGPT)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/7-habits-that-quietly-made-me-a-10x-developer-no-not-chatgpt--ykwkbei1o
source_url: https://dev.to/abubakersiddique771/7-habits-that-quietly-made-me-a-10x-developer-no-not-chatgpt-13c4
type: article
source: "Awesome Java Newsletter"
published: 2025-07-17T20:20:55.270Z
updated: 2025-07-17T20:21:16.601Z
tags: ["automation", "productivity"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 742
comments: 22
language: en
---

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# 7 Habits That Quietly Made Me a 10x Developer (No, Not ChatGPT)

**[Awesome Java Newsletter](https://daily.dev/sources/java_libhunt)** · 5 min read · 742 upvotes · 22 comments

## Summary

Seven productivity habits that can significantly improve developer efficiency: automating repetitive tasks through custom scripts and tools, writing code with future maintainability in mind, documenting debugging processes before starting, building personal productivity tools, timeboxing deep work sessions, studying and adapting workflows from successful projects, and conducting weekly solo retrospectives to identify improvements.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mythobyte** · 55 upvotes

> Great article.  Some of them I have been doing for years.
>
> 1. Write code that writes code.
> I did it more back in the day when I needed poco classes to match my db tables.  Now I just have Copilot do it.
>
> 2. I Always Design for “Future Me”
> I guess I do this but I call it, I write code to be MAINTAINED.
>
> 3.  I Document Before I Debug
> I can't say I do this unless me creating subtasks to my ticket that I have been assigned.
>
> 4. I Build Tiny Tools for Myself
> Honestly, I thought all developers do this.  When I have to mundane items such as renaming files, I am coding that bad boy.
>
> 5. I...

**@kris007iron** · 2 upvotes

> I think that it is simply practice but not like if do something here and there but actually like those 10k hours of focused practice will make you 10× from starting point easly with gradually increased difficulty of things you work on in a given field

**@audreydev** · 2 upvotes

> This is excellent!  Thank you for sharing.

**@zain72** · 1 upvotes

> Worth reading!
> Thanks for sharing

**@mauricioamendola** · 1 upvotes

> Honestly, a great article!

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