Episode 348: Making too many mistakes and low code career risk

Published: March 20, 2023, noon

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

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    Hey Dave and Jamison, long time listener of the show. looking to get your advice on dealing with guilt at work. Lately, I\u2019ve found myself in a lot of situations of having to deal with bugs/incompleteness after pushing out a feature. It\u2019s not my intention to be careless and I do feel like I\u2019m giving it my 100% but there seems to keep being thing after thing that I\u2019m not catching. It\u2019s impossible to sweep these things under the rug when you have to put up a follow-up pull request to fix something that was clearly your fault. I feel like every once in a while is okay but when it starts to become a pattern, I wonder how this may reflect on my performance review. My coworkers aren\u2019t letting on about any frustrations they may have but every time this happens, I can\u2019t help but feel shameful of myself and it\u2019s causing my anxiety to hit the roof. I\u2019m waking up for work each morning wondering what\u2019s it gonna be this time and feeling pits in my stomach.

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    Please help.

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    What are your thoughts on low-code platforms? I feel they will end up like WordPress (small companies with the tools in a varying degree of spaghetti that pay a contractor to clean up)

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    I found myself on a team that wants to use it, and I feel like it\u2019s a detriment to my career. I feel like another employer won\u2019t take me seriously in an interview as I try to explain my way around it.

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    Is this something I should be concerned about being in too long? I\u2019ve voiced my concerns, but it doesn\u2019t seem like direction is changing. What would you do? How do you feel about low-code in general?

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