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might be closer to accurate if the 2-5% is his estimate of the physical time spent making key-strokes


Surely we should only count the time actuating the key. Apple keyboard users are in shambles.


Only the keydown, not the keyup.


That's <24 minutes per 8 hour day.

If you're reading this and that matches your experience as an IC SWE whose job is ostensibly developing software.. you're either trapped in a very atypical org, or you're heading for a PIP.


Nope. I would bet most people really only do 2-10%.

But we would like to convince ourselves we don't.




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