Things I do when I’m writing code that don’t look like writing code

Non-exhaustive list of things I’m doing when I’m writing code, that don’t look like “writing code”:

• thinking
• researching
• contextualising
• testing
• measuring
• documenting
• communicating
• planning
• future-proofing
• educating
• learning
• expressing
• anticipating
• discovering
• inventing
• experimenting
• debugging
• analysing
• monitoring

For all its faults, an AI agent might “write code” faster than me.

But that’s only a part of the process.

My typing speed is not the bottleneck.