> Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE I've come to realize this is true in more contexts than I would like. I've encountered way too many situatio

> Basically, 99% of the effort is NOT WRITING CODE I've come to realize this is true in more contexts than I would like. I've encountered way too many situations where "sitting on your hands and not doing anything" was the right answer when asked to implement a project. It turns out that often there is radio silence for a month or so, then the original requester says "wait, it turns out we didn't need this. Don't do anything!"