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This gem is in the comments: > The average programmer spends only about 30 percent of his/her time working alone. That's nowhere close to my figure. In fact,
by rewqfdsa 11y ago
This gem is in the comments:
> The average programmer spends only about 30 percent of his/her time working alone.
That's nowhere close to my figure. In fact, I can pretty much _only_ program alone. Individual investigation and discovery is most of the fun in the field.
- douche 11y agoThere's a lot of faffing about and bike-shedding that occurs in the other 70% of the time, but very little work gets done.
- jonesb6 11y agoNot trying to create a positive feedback loop here, but I concur. My personal experience could point to as much as 95% of "programming" time being entirely independent once taken into account: reading articles/guides/tutorials, debugging, "playing around with" new tools/languages/frameworks.
- rileymat1 11y agoI suspect that it varies by environment. I have worked in environments where it is 95% alone and other environments where it is 95% collaboration. Some places actually do "pair programming".
- tptacek 11y agoSoftware developers are not unique in spending lots of working time alone. Plenty of other careers, virtually all of them with something closer to gender parity, demand extensive, solitary contemplation.