The Truth Nobody Talks About

Product managers hold endless meetings about button colors and microinteractions while developers are out here wrestling with legacy codebases held together by duct tape and prayers. Your IDE crashes every 20 minutes, the build pipeline takes longer than a feature film, and the documentation was last updated when PHP 5 was still cool.

But sure, let's spend another sprint optimizing the hover animation on that CTA button. Because nothing says "developer experience" like having to restart your local environment three times before lunch while using a framework with 47 breaking changes per minor version.

DX is the forgotten stepchild of software development. Everyone wants their app to feel like butter, but nobody wants to invest in tooling that doesn't make developers want to fake their own death.