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@Johns_priv I have absolutely had that exhausted but can't sleep experience over and over again.

My eventual solution was to just start walking a lot more.

You've been told software engineers "write code." But it's not true.

If I—a bog standard average software engineer—were to screen record myself "writing code", and then play it back for you.

You'd notice something.

I do barely any typing. I'm switching between files, repositories, documentation, tabs, terminals, IDE tabs. What am I doing?

I'm trying to bring it altogether in my head. That's where the action actually happens first before it makes it out of my fingers.

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The more I need to bring it altogether, the more costly it is. Every context switch is a walk across campus. Every unfamiliar framework is a new set of tools to pick up.

Even with agents, it still costs you, because it still needs to make sense in your head what's going on.

So software engineers don't really write code per se. Typing of it out is just the end step.

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@inthehands I have worked with many CEOs and founder-types, relatively closely in many cases.

I can confirm that they're not the ubermensch that the VC crowd likes to pretend they are.