# Frustration Driven Development

DevFeed: [Frustration Driven Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/frustration-driven-development-37622.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://swizec.com/blog/frustration-driven-development>)

Author: hi@swizec.com (Swizec Teller)

Published: 2026-04-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Swizec Teller](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/swizec-teller.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [CI/CD](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cicd.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>), [Test-driven development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tdd.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [permissions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permissions.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion argues that engineers should treat repeated requests and recurring manual work as signals to remove the underlying work. It gives examples involving CMS and UI improvements, dashboards, scripts, tests, faster CI/CD, and automated permission management, including a reduction in CI/CD time from 10 minutes to 2 minutes after renting larger GitHub workers.

## Source excerpt

Frustration is your greatest engineering asset. What do you do the 5th time someone asks for the same damn thing yet again?