Aren't you paid to think?

A woodworker is paid to work with wood. But the finished product is the worked wood, not a detailed summary of how the wood was worked with.

No, you are paid to deliver. Whether you do that by thinking + hand-coding or just vibe-coding, or handing the task description to Cthulhu and waiting for him to materialize the solution on your disk, is immaterial.

Unless of course you also have to explain your thinking and problem-solving process in meetings, which happens quite a lot the more senior you get.

No I'm paid to write code.

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