5 Principles of Survival for Software Engineers

Adapted from Leon Business School's "5 Principles of Survival"

Your stack won’t save you. Your principles will.

In the wild, survival isn’t about having the best gear. In software, survival isn’t about having the absolute best framework. It’s about how you operate when production is on fire, the roadmap shifts overnight, and AI just turned your "moat" into a weekend hobby project.

Here are 5 core principles that keep you alive in modern software engineering.