Losing Coding Motivation

I hear ya.#1 Do something else - It's time to take a break. Do something completely different, unrelated to programming.If you're like me, and it sounds like you might be, that's what it takes to make the mind miss what it knows best, and you'll soon find yourself coming up with ideas around what your doing, and chomping at the bit to dive into the technical aspects of them.#2 Take it slow - small projects, small victories. Set your goals very low and achieve each one as a stepping ston

You should take a break, it's normal to go through down periods. Work coding is also generally dissatisfactory compared to personal fun coding.Personally I have found that the sky is now the limit thanks to AI assistants! I was never the best coder out there, probably a median level programmer, but now I can code anything I imagine and it's tons of fun.Find some creative projects you want to work on and code them up!

Sounds like your approach to work might be the problem. Mix it up. Pick a simple side project and start then finish it. Doesn't even need to be software. The act of finishing it is the important part.During a funk in my 20s I went into a city Id never been to and spent the whole day looking at art. Thoroughly bored out of my skull. But over the next few days I had so many ideas for things.Perhaps you need to get really thoroughly and industrial-strength bored?

I'm much the same, a lot of the time I find it hard to do things like Project Euler or redoing work in a new language because it's not interesting to me.I have found that watching videos from things like GDC/TED talks about particular software techniques has given me motivation to try and copy them. Yeah, I'm not pushing the boundaries of human knowledge or making a killer app but it's a new piece of technology or technique that I've never done before.Perhaps

If you don't need/want it yourself, and no one's paying you to do it, yes, you'll lose interest. I don't have your problem; I reach for code as a solution pretty quickly. Probably key is I'm not trying to "finish" personal projects or make a product, just doing as much as I need at the time.Since you know web development, maybe install TamperMonkey and start "fixing" or improving websites you use regularly. You can often make a significant

Oh man, I'm in the exact same spot right now. I'm 35, sold first website when I was 17. And I don't even have "regular" job now, just working on my own projects and I still completely dread starting to work every single day. Sometimes it takes around 6 hours for me to just get started and write a line of code. Only to stop an hour later because I'm exhausted from doing nothing.The only time I am able to regain that "in the zone" feeling from 15 years ag

I just hope that within 6 months to 1 year you'll have found and built something you really enjoy working on and learn from, even if unfinished. Keep going. Positive conviction and optimism. Have faith. I hope you don't think negatively about your ideas and potential because that won't help.What do you find extremely satisfying working on in programming?Do you write all the time? It works for me! I keep journalling my ideas in a markdown README.md file publicly on GitHub sin

Get a team! Seriously, it sounds you're basically working alone most of the time. This doesn't work for most people (including me) - find a small, "doable" project, doesn't have to be world changing, that you and some other people can complete (complete = getting to measurable result) in a month or two. Even if it fails, you're still in a mentally & emotionally better situation than before. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, you've got time for t

If it is a consistent feeling then may be you are ripe for change. However, if it comes in phases, then following works for me in exact order. Frankly, following is more for "developer's block" but may be that's what you are going through.1. Try something different, new. However, it should not be complex, at least not to start with.1. If that doesn't hooks you, pick a small trivial, meaningless utility to write in whatever framework you are comfortabl

Something I'm dealing with too. I've found that to enjoy programming you really need to:- Stop comparing yourself to other people,- Shut yourself off from new tech and "Show HN" every now and then, to focus on what you want.- Have a project which isn't too serious and doesn't stress you out financially or burn you out (a game, invention or experimental project is usually good for this)- Lastly try other forms of work/exercise to help you swit