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Developer (un)happiness (Friends)
Oct 4, 2024 · 1 hr 46 min · 102.1 MB
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Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they’re doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer’s happiness and productivity.
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Featuring:
- Abi Noda – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- Abi leads DX - The developer intelligence platform
- Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey
- Insights from the 2024 Developer Survey
- Changelog.com News 106
- 80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)
- The One Number You Need to Increase ROI per Engineer (getdx.com)
- Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (getdx.com)
- @addyosmani - Good code is like a love letter
- Brian Reagan on pain
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- 0:00Let's talk!
- 0:37Sponsor: Sentry
- 2:19Developers are unhappy
- 4:54Not just a survey company
- 6:34Macro vs micro
- 9:07Venn diagram of happiness vs job happiness
- 12:10Two decades of "move fast and break things"
- 15:02How do you solve this problem?
- 19:07Happiness level of past Stack Overflow surveys?
- 22:41Jerod rant on URLs
- 25:032023 results didn't include this question
- 32:44Sponsor: Fly.io
- 36:11Sponsor: Coder.com
- 38:16Adam shares a growth hack with Abi
- 40:30Questions to support DXI
- 45:3214 drivers of DXI
- 50:02DX Core 4
- 52:29Your question requires more questions
- 54:23We have a survey for that
- 55:27Digging into DX Core 4 metrics
- 59:54Individually, not so good
- 1:03:19Gaming PRs
- 1:05:57Sponsor: Unblocked
- 1:08:59How do you measure speed?
- 1:11:08Brian Reagan on pain
- 1:14:50Happy AND productive
- 1:19:00Coding outside of work
- 1:22:11These 14 drivers
- 1:26:30You can't change what you don't measure
- 1:30:34How does DX rank?
- 1:33:33Digging into DX's data is fun
- 1:35:50Let's not end up like GitHub
- 1:38:39Majority and bootstrapped
- 1:40:22This has been fun
- 1:42:35Closing thoughts and stuff