Developer (un)happiness (Friends)
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welcome to changelog and friends our weekly talk show about happy devs just a little happy dev a little happy dev over there big thank you to our friends and our partners at fly.io that is the public cloud that helps productive developers ship learn more at fly.io okay let's get happy Hey, friends. I'm here with Dave Rosenthal, CTO of Sentry. So, Dave, I know lots of developers know about Sentry, know about the platform because, hey, we use Sentry and we love Sentry. And I know tracing is one of the next big frontiers for Sentry. Why add tracing to the platform? Why tracing and why now?
When we first launched the ability to collect tracing data, we were really emphasizing the performance aspect of that, the kind of application performance monitoring aspect, you know, because you have these things that are spans that measure how long something takes. And so the natural thing is to try to graph their durations and think about their durations and, you know, warn somebody if the durations are getting too long. But what we've realized is that the performance stuff ends up being just a bunch of gauges to look at. And it's not super actionable. Sentry is all about this notion of debug ability and actually making it easier to fix the problem, not just sort of giving you more gauges. A lot of what we're trying to do now is focus a little bit less on the sort of just the performance monitoring side of things and turn tracing into a tool that actually aids the debug ability of problems.
I love it. Okay, so they mean it when they say code breaks. Fix it faster with Sentry. More than 100,000 growing teams use Sentry to find problems fast, and you can too. Learn more at Sentry.io. That's S-E-N-T-R-Y.io. And use our code CHANGELOG. Get $100 off the team plan. That's almost four months free for you to try out Sentry. Once again, Sentry.io. Well, developers are unhappy. That's the sentiment, right? That is the sentiment. Why? Are you happy, Jared? You're a developer, right? Are you in the 80% rule or are you in the 20% rule? It depends on the minute of the particular day.
Okay. Whether or not I'm happy or unhappy. It's a fleeting thing, happiness. Am I satisfied in my work? Yes. Do I always think that? No. Am I a typical developer? Probably not anymore. We've been podcasters now for a long time. And so I don't hold a nine to five software job, which is probably the people mostly who are being interviewed or surveyed. I wasn't in that survey. So my sentiment was not in there. No, I did not take the Stack Overflow. We have Abhi Noda here with us from DX. Abhi, did you take the Stack Overflow survey?
I did not, but I've definitely been looking at the results.
Interesting results. 80% is a large number. I mean, that's an overwhelming number, and it's not a small survey. Pareto's principle says 80-20.
80-20. That's the big principle. Right. Apparently it's true in regards to developers' happiness.
Or lack thereof, I guess. That would be the 20. The happy would be 20, and the unhappy would be 80-20. What's interesting about this, so this came out, as we said, from the 2024 Stack Overflow Survey results synthesized by ShiftMag. So shout out to Anastasia Uspensky at ShiftMag for really highlighting this particular point and pulling together a few other data points to try to figure out, she was trying to figure out why, why are they synthesized? And so you might think, well, it's the AI. The AI is taking away our joy. That doesn't seem like that's the case. At least that's what her conclusion is. It's not the AI. The AI is making us slightly more productive and maybe a little bit more apprehensive about the future. But currently, I think developers who are in their seats... writing code know that at least today they aren't being replaced in large swaths by AI. So if you're a good software developer today, you're not too worried about that, at least not in the present.
And it's not the stuff they're working on necessarily, but it is other things. Other things like tech debt and complexity. And so that kind of comes out in all kinds of different ways. But that was her finding. Abhi, do you have, you run a survey company, right? You guys create surveys for folks.
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