[ahpearce]

How does a guitarist get more "productive" in terms of speed and quality? Practice.

Build things you want to use. Or build things other people want to use. Do practice problems online (LeetCode, Project Euler, etc.). Read more documentation.

Pick a tech stack that you want to become an expert on (preferably an employable one), and start learning. Buy the books.

It sounds like you're feeling a lack of confidence in your knowledge and abilities, and the only way to improve those is to continue learning and improving.

One other consideration is: do you spend a significant amount of time on repeated processes? Perhaps during development you're 1) logging into your database, 2) dropping some tables, 3) re-running some tests that populate the database, 4) viewing the results. Can you automate such processes? Can you put together a few scripts or utilities that make you more efficient? Can you find boilerplate or scaffolding that gets you 20-30% of the way there rather than starting from scratch?

[sanketskasar]

Thanks. The last bit of advice is something I can act upon. Although I do have automated some tasks, I think going all out on automation wherever possible will lead to saving some time. Might help