Comment by dns_snek
6 days ago
I don't know anyone who can think faster than they can type (on average), they would have to have an IQ over 150 or something. For mere mortals like myself, reasoning through edge cases and failure conditions and error handling and state invariants takes time. Time that I spend looking at a blinking cursor while the gears spin, or reading code. I've never finished a day where I thought to myself "gosh darn, if only I could type faster this would be done already".
You could be fast if you were coding only the happy path, like a lot of juniors do. Instead of thinking about trivial things like malformed input, library semantics, framework gotchas and what not.