In my experience it is true that developers average almost no time actually writing code per day but the article is far too generous to guess at where developer

In my experience it is true that developers average almost no time actually writing code per day but the article is far too generous to guess at where developers actually do spend their time. It is also my experience that when not in meetings developers spend a significant amount of time compensating for slow, defective, and sometimes completely broken internal software and processes. I suspect that is why corporate software has developed such an extreme Invented Here culture of irrationally fearing anything created by people they know. Of course, that is actually an excuse to not write code which creates a negative feedback loop further qualifying the problem. Because of all that nonsense my employment experiences have taught me to never trust in the competence of corporate developers unless they write code outside of their primary job AND are required to own liabilities/health of their assigned code items.