Thinking is always the hardest part and the bottleneck for me.

It doesn’t capture everyone’s experience when you say thinking is the smaller part of programming.

I don’t even believe a regular person is capable of producing good quality code without thinking 2x the amount they are coding

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SoftTalker 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Agree. I remember in school in the 1980s reading that a good programmer can write about 10 lines of code a day (citing The Mythical Man-Month) and I thought "that's ridiculous, I can write hundreds of lines a day" but didn't understand that's including all the time understanding requirements, thinking about design, testing, debugging, etc. Writing the code is a small portion of what a software engineer does.

	▲	pmontra 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also remember that programs were much smaller, code had to be typed in full and read accurately because compilers were slow and you didn't want to waste time for a syntax error. Anyway it's common even today to work half a day thinking, debugging, testing and eventually git diff shows only two changed lines.

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jama211 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most people (and most businesses) aren’t making good quality code though. Most tools we use have horrible codebases. Therefore now the code can often be a similar quality to before, just done far faster.