Comment by DeathArrow
5 years ago
I think that being fast at coding is akin of being fast working on an assembly line. This might matter a bit, however I don't strive to do that. If it comes naturally with experience good, if not, I don't make a goal from it.
Churning out code is something that bores me. I'm interested more in problem solving, computer science part of programming, optimizations, research, discovery, architecture.
I am not interested so much in how I do this common thing fast, but rather in how I solve this hard or interesting problem. If a problem is already solved, can I find a better solution? How fast the code will run? How robust it will be?
I’d also add that it’s something many of us no longer need to prove to ourselves. When you are new, you have to at least prove to yourself once that you can be this ‘machine’. Once you’ve proven it, how is that a goal anymore? I’m not interested in that anymore either.
There are more optimal ways to being this machine than just slamming one’s head against a keyboard, the proverbial work smarter, not harder.