What's the most annoying thing you deal with when building a new project?

Spending three months arguing over tech stack, frameworks, whether or not to lint but never really worrying about test driven development because that is too difficult for the junior developers.

BTW just use Elixir and self host if in doubt : )

Cloud company products are over engineered piles of crap.

Agile teams... which is a euphemism for let's just start building and figure out the nitty gritty details later.

At least we all sat round a whiteboard doing waterfall and discussed the architecture, requirements and the best way to build things holistically.

For me, I feel like all of the off the shelf options for authentication are difficult to manage. Every new project I spend an hour or two digging around for options, ultimately throwing up my hands and building my own.

Project owners don't really know what they are asking for half the time.. when they move the goal posts after the thing has been built and tested and ready for release * sigh

I'm not bitter obviously LOL

Choice blindness.

react... over my dead body.

Vendor lock-in..

Oh yeah AWS have an authentication system.. let's just use that and we can always switch to a different one!

eeerm yeah right.

typescript... just no.