Reality of Developers' Time Beyond Coding

How Much Time Devs Actually Spent Coding?

Devs spend way less time on coding then you think.

Most of their time is spent on other things: communication, meetings, planning, and debugging. The act of writing code is just a small piece of the puzzle.

The Pragmatic Engineer had a great breakdown on this here.

Makes you wonder what @elonmusk thinks about this.

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