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Pointless coding for the void (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev
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I feel like most of my work has been wasted throughout my career.

In my 10 years, I can look back and I think maybe 3 years of my work still exists today. A couple companies are not defunct. A couple projects were literally cut from under me.

Is this normal? Do most software engineers end up having a ton of their work wasted?

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago

Absolutely normal, imo. I was shocked my (MVP level) solution was still the main production software for a giant retailer. Ive also written and thrown away far more code than has been deployed

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