--- title: 🧠 How to be a great software engineer without using... description: Learn how to be a successful software engineer without using excessive brainpower. Discover work methodologies and practices that can help simplify complexity.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-without-using-your-brain--gi3fqnk8u twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 🧠 How to be a great software engineer without using your brain. | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to be a successful software engineer without using excessive brainpower. Discover work methodologies and practices that can help simplify complexity.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-without-using-your-brain--gi3fqnk8u og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GI3FQNK8u.png og:image:alt: 🧠 How to be a great software engineer without using your brain. 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. # 🧠 How to be a great software engineer without using your brain. **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 5 min read · 143 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary Learn how to be a successful software engineer without using excessive brainpower. Discover work methodologies and practices that can help simplify complexity. Explore the difference between TDD and BDD. ## 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. **@samfrm** · 7 upvotes > hmm, literally, you cannot be anything without using your brain :D **@kyratzakos** · 1 upvotes > Behavior-Driven Development vs Test Driven Development. > I think TDD is helpful, even if you have to write a couple of tests that will ultimately be rewritten - it's a way to leave a breadcrumb to return to later without sweating about it too much. **@exfd3** · 1 upvotes > trial and error. **@azizesouna** · 0 upvotes > hhhhh u realy bro , without brain u can't do anything and how can be softwar enginner, or just title **@hyungwoonguyen** · 0 upvotes > Good, I really like it. ## 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: [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#tdd](https://daily.dev/tags/tdd) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-without-using-your-brain--gi3fqnk8u) ```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":"🧠 How to be a great software engineer without using your brain.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-without-using-your-brain--gi3fqnk8u","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-be-a-great-software-engineer-without-using-your-brain--gi3fqnk8u"},"datePublished":"2024-04-17T07:53:55.460Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z","description":"Learn how to be a successful software engineer without using excessive brainpower. 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