I worked on projects with long compile times and nowadays I will often write code all day without executing anything and then spend the last hour running and fi

I worked on projects with long compile times and nowadays I will often write code all day without executing anything and then spend the last hour running and fixing it. Maybe that's a skill I developed because of long compile times, but whenever I work on a project with short ones I feel much more motivated and productive. Your experience is probably biased from watching beginners learning to code.