π§βπ» Your 2025 Dev Retrospective #181985
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As 2025 comes to a close, this is a good moment to take a practical look at how development skills and workflows evolved this year. Across Programming Help, recurring themes included the use of AI in daily coding tasks, more structured debugging practices, increased attention to testing and maintainability, and a clear move toward self-service learning through guides, documentation, and community-driven resources.
π§ Your checkpoint
Now, think back to the beginning of the year. What felt difficult at that point? Maybe it was a concept you avoided, a class of bugs that always slowed you down, a tool or workflow you did not fully understand.
Then compare that with how things feel today. What feels easier now? What finally clicked? What changed in the way you approach problems, structure your code, test your work, or reason about systems?
If it helps to frame your response, you can reflect on:
Thereβs no single format here - feel free to share whatever best captures your experience.
π§© Challenges that shaped 2025
This year we also experimented with new formats for learning by doing. Gear Up, our Programming Help campaign, introduced a more hands-on way to engage with code through weekly Python challenges designed to strengthen reasoning, debugging and problem-solving skills.
If you would like to revisit them or haven't participated, here are the posts from the campaign:
Feel free to revisit any of these threads. They are great for testing your current skills and comparing how you reason about problems now compared to earlier in the year.
π€ AI, agents, and new workflows
2025 marked a visible shift in how many developers started to work with AI. For some, it became part of daily coding. For others, agents, model-driven tooling, or early MCP-style workflows started to show up for the first time.
π Looking into 2026
To close this retrospective, you can also weigh in on one of these forward-looking questions:
Thank you for making this community shine throughout 2025. You showed up, shared your progress, took on the challenges, and made time to help others when questions got tough. That generosity is what keeps this space strong, curious, and worth coming back to.
See you in 2026.
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