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by rraihansaputra 1945 days ago
Different people in different situations use different ways to refine 'the thought that went behind that code'. Some like to write on paper/whiteboard, some like to draw graphs, some like to research for similar solutions on the web, some like to directly code. Time in IDE/Editor is easy to quantify, time thinking about solving the problem is not. That is strictly individual work, though. Time spent convincing the PM/stakeholder to reduce/change scope is one that is very productive but rarely quantifiable/counted.
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> Time in IDE/Editor is easy to quantify, time thinking about solving the problem is not.

That's the key. To find the time thinking just fill in the gaps between the time spent coding. For ex, the GIF in this post https://wakatime.com/blog/27-fill-the-gaps-in-your-coding-ac...