# \#career **URL:** https://forum.devtalk.com/tag/career/1165.md [Latest](https://forum.devtalk.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.devtalk.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.devtalk.com/tags.md) --- ## [Understand The 4 Shapes of Software Developers to Better Navigate Your Career](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/understand-the-4-shapes-of-software-developers-to-better-navigate-your-career/249780)
**Author:** [@CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/CommunityNews)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [21 September 2026 20:46 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/understand-the-4-shapes-of-software-developers-to-better-navigate-your-career/249780 "2026-09-21T20:46:06Z")
Discover your ideal developer profile for Growth, Team Synergy, and Career Success. (4 minutes) Read in full here: --- ## [Would knowing that a developer has a psychopathy diagnosis change how you view their work?](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/would-knowing-that-a-developer-has-a-psychopathy-diagnosis-change-how-you-view-their-work/248789)
**Author:** [@LoweringProofs](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/LoweringProofs)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [16 August 2026 18:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/would-knowing-that-a-developer-has-a-psychopathy-diagnosis-change-how-you-view-their-work/248789 "2026-08-16T18:20:32Z")
I’m an independent software developer working on programming languages, compilers, formal methods, static analysis, and software security. I’m considering publicly disclosing that I have been diagnosed with psychopathy.… --- ## [Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/244546)
**Author:** [@CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/CommunityNews)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [12 May 2026 04:25 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/244546 "2026-05-12T04:25:59Z")
I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall1. However, it seems pretty obvious that using AI to perform a task means you don’t learn as much about performing that task . So… --- ## [Website jobs are "dead" - what to do now?](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/website-jobs-are-dead-what-to-do-now/188470)
**Author:** [@guaip](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/guaip)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [5 April 2025 15:49 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/website-jobs-are-dead-what-to-do-now/188470 "2025-04-05T15:49:01Z")
I’ve been doing front-end as a freelancer for 15 years. I have some PHP background and still do some backend stuff to this day, but I specialized in converting design to code back when it was cool in the late 2000s and 2… --- ## [A career ending mistake](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/a-career-ending-mistake/41920)
**Author:** [@CommunityNews](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/CommunityNews)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [12 March 2022 13:42 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/a-career-ending-mistake/41920 "2022-03-12T13:42:09Z")
A career ending mistake — Bitfield Consulting. As software engineers, we’re constantly making detailed, elaborate plans for computers to execute. Isn’t it weird that we rarely give a moment’s thought to the program for… --- ## [New Tech Lead - what do I need to know?](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/new-tech-lead-what-do-i-need-to-know/11084)
**Author:** [@ohm](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/ohm)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [4 October 2021 14:59 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/new-tech-lead-what-do-i-need-to-know/11084 "2021-10-04T14:59:17Z")
I just switched jobs to tech lead with a small team of about 6 other developer. This is my first tech lead job. What do I need to know? At first I won’t have people responsibilities (thus no 1-on-1s or career development… --- ## [ElixirMix 140 - How to Become a Top End Developer](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/elixirmix-140-how-to-become-a-top-end-developer/17083)
**Author:** [@wolf4earth](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/wolf4earth)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [13 August 2021 21:33 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/elixirmix-140-how-to-become-a-top-end-developer/17083 "2021-08-13T21:33:09Z")
Charles Max Wood takes the lead this week. He and Adi Iyengar discuss what Top End Devs are and what people should be doing to become Top End Devs. They start out discussing the default trajectory of a developer’s caree…