[agumonkey]

I couldn't disagree more. You can have both kinds in both fields. Regular straightforward coding or discovery coding. I'm currently trying to derive a timeout monad, I have no clue how and trying hours of dead ends before starting from scratch.

It hurts but it's my own pain. I decide how much, the kind, the time...

In it jobs, social interactions cause so much friction, information uncertainty, bad dependencies .. it adds to the raw effort.

That said it also helps avoiding rabbit holes too deep.