Writing more readable code and setting clear expectations can help reduce cognitive load, more consistently reach flow state, and build more effective feedback loops.
Developers spend as much time reading code, if not more, as writing it. However, we often forget when coding that we’re writing for other humans to read as much as we are for computers to execute. Software development isn’t just about making things work, it’s about making things that other people can work with.
As developers learn, read, and write code, all the points of friction they encounter combine to form the Developer Experience (DX).