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True or false, devs?
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whereas a physical building's construction budget is 80% actual construction (40% materials/equipment, 40% labour), and 20% design (12% architect, 8% structural engineer), i submit software development is 80% figuring out what to write, 20% writing it down
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Going by the responses, it sounds like it depends on where you draw the line between thinking and writing. One extreme would be fingerspitzengefuhl. It’s thinking if it doesn’t just type itself because you’ve written such patterns so often. I think that’s where Dorian’s at.
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Other extreme I suppose would be boundary between where you think within the context of the language’s tooling and abstractions vs in a language-independent way about solution logic. That’s the waterfall planning line.