Developer (un)happiness (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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 – 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

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

บท

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sentry (00:00:37)

https://sentry.io/

3. Developers are unhappy (00:02:19)

4. Not just a survey company (00:04:54)

5. Macro vs micro (00:06:34)

6. Venn diagram of happiness vs job happiness (00:09:07)

7. Two decades of "move fast and break things" (00:12:10)

8. How do you solve this problem? (00:15:02)

9. Happiness level of past Stack Overflow surveys? (00:19:07)

10. Jerod rant on URLs (00:22:41)

11. 2023 results didn't include this question (00:25:03)

12. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:32:44)

https://fly.io/

13. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:36:11)

https://coder.com/

14. Adam shares a growth hack with Abi (00:38:16)

15. Questions to support DXI (00:40:30)

16. 14 drivers of DXI (00:45:32)

17. DX Core 4 (00:50:02)

18. Your question requires more questions (00:52:29)

19. We have a survey for that (00:54:23)

20. Digging into DX Core 4 metrics (00:55:27)

21. Individually, not so good (00:59:54)

22. Gaming PRs (01:03:19)

23. Sponsor: Unblocked (01:05:57)

https://getunblocked.com

24. How do you measure speed? (01:08:59)

25. Brian Reagan on pain (01:11:08)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Vg3iSd5ms

26. Happy AND productive (01:14:50)

27. Coding outside of work (01:19:00)

28. These 14 drivers (01:22:11)

29. You can't change what you don't measure (01:26:30)

30. How does DX rank? (01:30:34)

31. Digging into DX's data is fun (01:33:33)

32. Let's not end up like GitHub (01:35:50)

33. Majority and bootstrapped (01:38:39)

34. This has been fun (01:40:22)

35. Closing thoughts and stuff (01:42:35)