You've been told software engineers "write code." But it's not true.
If I—a bog standard average software engineer—were to screen records myself "writing code", and then play it back for you.
You'd notice something.
I do barely any typing. I'm switching between files, repositories, documentation, tabs, terminals, IDE tabs. What am I doing?
I'm trying to bring it altogether in my head. That's where the action actually happens first before it makes it out of my fingers.
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Robert Roskam
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2026-01-31 14:01:09 UTC
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