My Experience of Developer Burnout

Post-it note with a drawing based on one of Franz Kafka's illustrations depicting exhaustion and burnout, stuck on a computer monitor showing some React code.

One bright September morning, I sat down to work on an AWS Lambda function. Yet, as the minutes ticked by, I realized I had been staring blankly at the code for what felt like an eternity. Thirty minutes had passed, and I had made no progress. I couldn’t do it. The code, which once made perfect sense, now appeared utterly foreign. What was happening to me? Was this “burnout”?

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