I mostly agree with you, but I have to point out something to the contrary of this part you said: "...The minute you have to discuss those things with someone

I mostly agree with you, but I have to point out something to the contrary of this part you said: "...The minute you have to discuss those things with someone else, your bandwidth decreases by orders of magnitude and now you have to put words to these things and describe them, and physically type them in or vocalize them." Subvocalization/explicit vocalization of what you're doing actually improves your understanding of the code. Doing so may 'decrease bandwith', but improves comprehension, because it's basically inline rubber duck debugging. It's actually easy to write code which you don't understand and cannot explain what it's doing, whether at the syntax, logic or application level. I think the analogue is to writing well; anyone can write streams of consciousness amounting to word salad garbage. But a good writer can cut things down and explain why every single thing was chosen, right down to the punctuations. This feature of writing should be even more apparent with code. I've coded tons of things where I can get the code working in a mediocre fashion, and yet find great difficulty in try to verbally explain what I'm doing. In contrast there's been code where I've been able to explain each step of what I'm doing before I even write anything; in those situations what generally comes out tends to be superior maintainable code, and readable too.