[gergles]

The amount of time you spend writing code on a whiteboard outweighs 'coding time'?

Really?

Let's be clear: whiteboards are a fine tool for design, problem analysis, architecture, etc. etc. People take issue with "write me bubble sort up here on this whiteboard."

[Cookingboy]

The amount of time we spend "designing" on the whiteboard very often outweights coding, yes.

The implementation part of "software engineer" very often is much easier and sometimes even trivial when compare to the design/architecture of the entire system. Implementation is also very easy to improve upon and refactor out, if you have a good design to begin with.