> The actual act of typing things in is a tiny* part of the whole process.*
A tiny part of cutting actual code, and a big part of communicating and documenting that code to others. Even for a solo developer, you will always be communicating with your future self unless you are blessed with the kind of eidetic memory that can recall mindstates.
Software engineering today is both an intensely individualized experience (flow state is still A Thing for example) and a team sport heavily reliant upon lots of communicating between people in many different roles. Written communication is a big lever that propels you beyond verbal reach. I frequently see software developers who type slower than an average range of 40-60 wpm produce barely intelligible documentation, actively shirk ticket-based processes that involve much typing, and rarely if ever present their ideas to others in written form.
This is usually a hindrance to their careers. I keep hoping the parsimony of typing speed would act as a forcing function and be made up by concise, elegant written communication but alas, I have yet to run across such an example.
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> The actual act of typing things in is a tiny* part of the whole process.*
A tiny part of cutting actual code, and a big part of communicating and documenting that code to others. Even for a solo developer, you will always be communicating with your future self unless you are blessed with the kind of eidetic memory that can recall mindstates.
Software engineering today is both an intensely individualized experience (flow state is still A Thing for example) and a team sport heavily reliant upon lots of communicating between people in many different roles. Written communication is a big lever that propels you beyond verbal reach. I frequently see software developers who type slower than an average range of 40-60 wpm produce barely intelligible documentation, actively shirk ticket-based processes that involve much typing, and rarely if ever present their ideas to others in written form.
This is usually a hindrance to their careers. I keep hoping the parsimony of typing speed would act as a forcing function and be made up by concise, elegant written communication but alas, I have yet to run across such an example.