I feel like you're mixing up communication overhead with the creativity of programming and they are on completely different axes. > Isn't programming a more cr

I feel like you're mixing up communication overhead with the creativity of programming and they are on completely different axes. > Isn't programming a more creative endeavour than we think? This should be fairly obvious but programming isn't monolithic. Your experience will vary depending on your work environment and current project. So you can either put up with it (and there is still plenty of satisfaction that can be had from programming in such an environment, or from doing unglamorous work) or you can look for a job/company that operates differenly or works on more interesting problems (they're rare). > you don't need to explain what you did to anyone in a standup. You can devote your energy to the programming instead. These two aren't mutually exclusive. Working on a team comes with communication/meeting/status-report overhead, this doesn't need to take away from your productivity.