[qsera]

> 90% of our time should be spent thinking, and most of that reading.

Not sure about you, but I do a lot of thinking by typing code...In fact, I think it would be very hard to think without actually typing code..

I don't think this is exclusive to coding. Even general ideas are refined if one tries to put them in writing.

[marcus_holmes]

I literally can't do this.

I used to smoke a lot, and every time I went to smoke outside I'd think about what I was coding and find some stupid mistake just from thinking about it away from the keyboard.

Now I go for a walk and 9 times out of 10 it's the same, I write better code because I thought about it away from the keyboard.

This also works with vibe coding, I find - I think of better approaches to the codebase when I'm not in front of it

[qsera]

Yea, that works for me as well. But I can't do that from blank state. I need to be walking away from a long coding session for that to work.

[theshrike79]

Yea, I get the empty page curse if I just think and think about something.

Scaffolding a shitty solution end to end lets me see the whole path and gives me something to ground my thinking with.

It's easier to polish a turd than to make a diamond out of nothing. =)