Why Software Engineers Burn Out Differently And What To Do About It

<p>I used to close my laptop at 6 PM and forget about code until the next morning.</p> <p>Now I close my laptop and my brain keeps compiling.</p> <p>I'm in the shower, and

<p>Burnout in software engineers rarely looks like a breakdown. It looks like a great engineer slowly going quiet — fewer ideas, slower responses, "I'm fine" becoming their

<p>Hi, I'm Cesar, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience.</p> <p>In 2023, I got sick and burned out.<br /> In 2024, I was laid off and even rejected from

<p>I used to think the job was mostly writing code. Seven years in, I still write code 💻, but the moments that stick are rarely the ones where I typed the cleverest abstraction.

<p>There used to be something deeply human about good software.</p> <p>You notice it in the tone of an API response — not just what it says, but how it says it. You notice it in

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<p>The tech industry has a memory problem—and it goes far beyond uncollected garbage in the heap. We have collectively forgotten what it means to write efficient software.</p>

<h2> 🗂️ Planning and Sorting Development Priorities </h2> <p>In my previous post I shared how I picked up an old hobby, Cooking, which aided in giving myself a well-deserved