I'm guessing you enjoy doing the work of writing software, because I think most people who are productive like that do. So I agree with you that "just do less"

I'm guessing you enjoy doing the work of writing software, because I think most people who are productive like that do. So I agree with you that "just do less" is not a good answer, and will not actually lead to satisfaction. The risk is not only guilt, but even worse, the soul-destroying feeling of being a useless person just keeping a seat warm. Although I agree with another commenter that doing things like learning new technologies and reading and commenting on Hacker News is "work" that you can definitely allow yourself to do if you would enjoy or appreciate it. If you start resolving somewhat fewer story points but still way more than anyone else, nobody is going to notice/call you on it. But meanwhile, you are doing work you enjoy doing, what exactly is the nature of your annoyance? Just that it doesn't seem "fair" that they don't work very hard? I think you have to get over that. It's not your job to discipline them, and who knows how hard they are working (maybe they work very hard, they just aren't very skilled) or what else they have going on in their lives that may be very hard and distracting them. If you would just appreciate working on a team with other people at your level you can collaborate with, if you would just enjoy that more -- you aren't going to get that on this team. That situation is really not going to change on this team, and there's no point in trying to. You will have to find another team/job/role (maybe at the same organization, possibly not) to find that. Perhaps there is someone on your team who would like to learn from you and get more productive? You might enjoy mentoring them if so, including even pair programming etc. If you can't control your disdain for the other team members, you will have to find a new job. Neither you nor they are going to be happy if it becomes clear you think they are incompetent slackers.