To me, productive = DRY (Don't repeat yourself), it means you most of the time just forget boilerplate, plumping details to do at least work with the most outco

To me, productive = DRY (Don't repeat yourself), it means you most of the time just forget boilerplate, plumping details to do at least work with the most outcome as possible. One practical example, is the CI/CD workflow, the auto testing setup. So yes, you "implicitly" need to prepare for enough abstraction to be DRY.