US developers are losing nearly 20 full work days each year to tech bugs and issues like tool failures, outages, workflow problems, and time spent as unofficial IT support.

A survey from Lokalise found these frustrations are taking up an average of three hours per week, equivalent to $8,000 a year in lost productivity per developer.

All told, 44% percent of developers have missed a deadline due to technical issues.

Glitches or software bugs are the biggest problem, cited by 55%, followed by platform or service downtime (47%), poor or missing documentation (35%), and tool integration issues (24%).

Other hassles included waiting on code reviews or support from colleagues, build or deployment failures, version control conflicts, and localization or language bugs.

A quarter said they

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