Time Spent Not Coding
The cluster discusses how developers spend the majority of their time reading, thinking, debugging, fixing, and handling busywork rather than actually writing new code, with many emphasizing that typing code is only a small fraction of overall dev work.
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I'm having a hard time seeing this as a win. Maybe I not understanding it. You say 70% of your time is spent this way. Just looking at my own coding there's just sooooooo much busy work. Add this field on that dialog, pass this variable to that other class, write that test, etc ... my point being 5% of my work is thinking about the problem an 95% is typing, testing, iterating. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
read more code than you write. for your entire career.
This. It's usually all the things besides writing code that takes most of the time.
Perhaps more time that you would spend writing code yourself.
There's more to writing code than writing it fast.
How would you ever have time to write new code?
The final piece (writing code) eating more than 10% of your dev time "for decades" is a good indicator to find a new career imo.
this is so true.. we already spend a lot more time fixing and tweaking code than actually creating.
Less time spent writing code is more time you can spend thinking about those hard parts, no?
15 minutes that would be better spent writing code? :)