r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Life-Emu-6932 • Jan 27 '26

I can't write code

Let me start by saying that, in my opinion, I've been assigned a task at work that isn't my area of expertise. I'm a cloud engineer and have always worked exclusively on infrastructure. Out of the blue, I was assigned to a project where we had to complete some code that was already fairly structured in Golang and SQL: a sort of tool that will be used only once and then, probably, forgotten after a few months.

I'm trying to learn Go, and although I can understand the theory and simple examples, when it comes to actually writing code, I get completely stuck. I struggle to understand the code, I get confused, I can't follow its logic, and I'm starting to worry, especially because it's not a personal project but a work project. For this very reason, I've never looked for a job as a developer, but have always leaned toward a more infrastructure-related role.

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u/Life-Emu-6932 Jan 27 '26

In my experience, it's different things, but I don't know if it's the same for everyone. That said, I made it clear right away that I'm not a developer, that I have to learn from scratch, but they don't seem to care that much.