Kevin Avignon • 6/13/2025

When Doing Too Much Is a Symptom, Not a Solution

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A backend engineer shares a personal story about joining a team to modernize a legacy SOAP API with F#. The article details the human-side challenges of engineering: team members quitting, shifting management, unclear leadership roles, and the pressure to refactor a massive, untested codebase alone, highlighting symptoms of burnout and organizational dysfunction.

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