Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
My advice would be; don&#x27;t do it, unless it&#x27;s a way of life.<p>Being a software developer is easy, I&#x27;ve seen loads of them, these are the people who&#x27;s work I end up fixing, it stresses me out and it costs the company more because they&#x27;ve paid two people to do the job.<p>Being a good software developer is a way of life; if you&#x27;re going home after work and looking at ways to improve your life or other peoples lives by writing software, you&#x27;re doing it right.<p>Work with the best people you can find, the more experience these people have than you, the better. Learn what you can, and make it your aim to be the best, one day they&#x27;ll come and ask you for help. This is the point where you thank them.<p>Find something you&#x27;re good at, find a niche language in your company or tool set and become the go-to developer for it. As soon as you attain that, and you&#x27;re known as the go-to, find something else, work on the new thing, and maintain the old, find languages you enjoy and master them.<p>Eventually, you get to a point where you&#x27;re asked to fix&#x2F;write code in a language you&#x27;ve never used, and yet, with the API docs at hand, you don&#x27;t even skip a beat.<p>Also, remember this, no matter what you think, not everyone is far better than you at this. There are some exceptional developers, but most are either putting in a lot of hard work for the results you see, or they&#x27;re average.<p>Finally; Never release on a Friday, and never make changes to production.