In my opinion, pride in one's craft doesn't depend upon output quantity, but quality. It would be acceptable to slack by working less, taking longer to do thing

In my opinion, pride in one's craft doesn't depend upon output quantity, but quality. It would be acceptable to slack by working less, taking longer to do things, etc. But the quality of what you do insert into the codebase, and allow to be inserted, should always be the highest. Nobody will remember how quickly or slowly you did a task, but they will see your name beside some shitty code in a git blame or PR approval and think "what the fuck was this guy doing?". To me, that's where an engineer should never impugn his reputation. Just my opinion though.