The most common reason I'm blocked from coding is that I'm still doing the analysis necessary to figure out what needs to be coded. Examples: - I am currently

The most common reason I'm blocked from coding is that I'm still doing the analysis necessary to figure out what needs to be coded. Examples: - I am currently not coding because I have a profile running, to figure out which part of the code I'm working on is slow before fixing it. - Shortly after pandemic lockdowns, I was not coding because my employer had a problem, and we could only come up with two solutions to it. Both were very high-touch, in the sense that either would require hundreds of dev-hours divided across at least a dozen individual developers. I was not coding for about two weeks there because I was the one tasked with doing an inventory of all that work, so we could make an informed decision about which solution to pursue. The other way of putting this: The job of a software engineer is not just (or often even mostly) coding.