Welcome to the wonderful, chaotic, exhausting world of software development. Let’s strip away the marketing hype, the startup dreams, and the Hollywood portrayals of coding wizards, and look at programming for what it really is: a deeply flawed, brutally human process that somehow produces things that work—sort of.

Start by reading this article: Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell, a video version is provided.

Then check out this video.