This is the most depressing question I've read in a while. Thinking is so fundamental to programming - the most important part of the whole activity (for me) -

This is the most depressing question I've read in a while. Thinking is so fundamental to programming - the most important part of the whole activity (for me) - and then there is a professional programmer who has to ask how to hide this part of programming from his coworkers because they do not understand his activities. I do not even know what I would do in such a situation. Probably trying to find a new job if such questions and suspicions persist after an explanation.