I also can't get myself to do it seriously for my own tasks, but when I had to do it for a jr colleague I found out... yeah, breaking it down its hard, as hard

I also can't get myself to do it seriously for my own tasks, but when I had to do it for a jr colleague I found out... yeah, breaking it down its hard, as hard as coding - then you get most of the hard work already done, and coding the solution becomes trivial. Chances of false starts go from 80% to 20%. (A few times there is prototyping involved but I won't share that with non-devs, since they don't seem to get it.)