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What is the biggest career mistake a programmer can make?

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Ben

Think they are done learning.

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Michael Gee

Being closed-minded to other's ideas or technologies.

Having a "my way or the highway" mindset can prevent a lot of missed opportunities to learn from others and find new perspectives on things.

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Aakash Chaudhary

Forgetting that there always be a person who works harder and smarter than you.

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Alan

Burning bridges. I get that this applies to every career, but I feel like as developers we are more prone to getting referrals for freelance work or other business opportunities. Sometimes we take more than we can chew and end up burning bridges with people who may end up going somewhere. This has happened to me multiple times in my career and to this day, I still regret making that mistake.

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Lol. What have you done?

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Alan

I once was referred to a guy who wanted to build a product in the transportation space. His MVP was really basic and very boring to work on, so I half-assed the work. 7 years later, the company is worth close to $100MM USD.

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Nikola?

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Matthieu Cneude

Practice makes perfect.

Practice is important, but if you don't try to go out of your bubble and challenge your knowledge, you will repeat the same misconceptions for years.

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Petar Gitnik

Ignoring that you need soft skills, and not taking responsibility when working in a team.

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Marcell Cruz

I think the biggest is not believing in code, not believing that if you put your mind in to it, you can solve the problem that you have, improve your skills and move to the next level

a lot of people don't even try

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Gayan Hewa

Stagnate

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True

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Cesar Kohl
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What do you mean?

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Cesar Kohl • Edited

I mean what the link I've sent describes. Probably it's better to encourage reading rather than trying to explain. Since there's a lot of points in there, please take a look! :) Hope you like it.

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Mike Bybee

Failing to recognize their own worth, to keep increasing it, and to keep improving the case they make for it.

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Sergey Todyshev

The billion dollar mistake by null pointer reference :), but honestly even such mistake is nothing!

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Herb Wolfe

Not having a career plan, or being financially irresponsible.