--- title: Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work description: Find out the latest trends and insights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, Software Architecture InfoQ Trends... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work | daily.dev og:description: Find out the latest trends and insights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, Software Architecture InfoQ Trends... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P5F2cpbti.png og:image:alt: Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work **[Tech World With Milan](https://daily.dev/sources/techworld-with-milan)** · 13 min read · 86 upvotes · 11 comments ## Summary Find out the latest trends and insights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, Software Architecture InfoQ Trends Report, and DevJobsScanner's analysis of demanded frontend frameworks. Key highlights include the most popular and desired programming languages, top databases, cloud platforms, AI tools usage, developers' job satisfaction, and industry trends in software architecture and AI-assisted development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@henriqueleite42** · 8 upvotes > Coding is amazing, but coding for a company sucks. > > The priority of every company is to ship fast, cheap, products to make the more amount of money as possible. This is a philosophy that doesn't help anyone but the stakeholders. > > Let get games by example in here. When we had only 1 chance to publish a game, and it could not receive updates, companies had to really make it the best that they could. Nowadays, most of AAA games are broken at launch to make more money and "we will fix it later". > > It's very sad to see people being used to low quality products because no company make a high quality... **@joshuamo** · 4 upvotes > Is this of any surprise to anyone at all? > > Being forced to use whatever the company's using instead of what I want to use and not being able to go at the pace that I want to really, really sucks. Especially when it involves cutting corners. **@kkj1** · 4 upvotes > All the projects I was given at work accumulated immense technical debt due to bad managment. That's why I prefer to work on my own projects in my freetime. **@thecookingsenpai** · 3 upvotes > If coding is like creative, artistic work, it's only natural that you'd prefer to do it without constraints. **@asasvirtuais** · 3 upvotes > Yeah, my job is making UI updates for an ecommerce (which I do wholeheartedly). Outside of that I am doing my best to make something meaningful, effective, and efficient. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti"},"datePublished":"2024-08-08T15:06:56.845Z","dateModified":"2024-08-08T15:07:13.302Z","description":"Find out the latest trends and insights from the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, ThoughtWorks Technology Radar, Software Architecture InfoQ Trends...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4b44358efce0df76343d1797d18df2b6?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/4b44358efce0df76343d1797d18df2b6?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Tech World With Milan","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Tech World With Milan","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/737f436491ef436dba1bbab9052e4a04","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/techworld-with-milan"},"commentCount":11,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":86},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":11}],"keywords":"architecture","timeRequired":"PT13M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tech World With Milan","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/techworld-with-milan"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Developer hate their job, but like to code outside work"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/developer-hate-their-job-but-like-to-code-outside-work-p5f2cpbti","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Coding is amazing, but coding for a company sucks.\nThe priority of every company is to ship fast, cheap, products to make the more amount of money as possible. 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