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i work full time as a developer so... 2ish?
I could see that going up to 5 depending on the working environment. But people answering 7+ hours seems bonkers to me, that's more than a working day!
Junior dev btw. I'm assuming that the coding part goes down the more mature I get
On a productive day at the home office coding can be over 8 hours (plus 1 to 2 hours following company chat).
If I follow the natural rhythm of my energy though the day, about 3-4 hours in the morning, followed by a several hours long break, then another 3 hours in the late afternoon/early evening. So about 6-8 hours total, and I can sustainable do it for many days in a row.
The issue, of course, is that I have a life, people want to schedule meetings with me, or I want to go for dinner with my family or friends. As a result it's hard to coordinate my work so that I'm following my natural energy cycle.
2h. The rest of the time is spent thinking.
i work full time as a developer so... 2ish?
This sounds more familiar to me. xD 8 hour day, in a place with a nice or relaxed working culture that turns into 6 hours. Minus lunch break, 5. Minus meetings, 4. Minus helping others, 3. Minus whatever procrastination during the day, in practice 2 hours on actual code. I could see that going up to 5 depending on the working environment. But people answering 7+ hours seems bonkers to me, that's more than a working d…
I’m extremely sceptical of people who say they can code for that amount of time.
But is writing code, stopping for reading docs / thinking and continue writing code counted as 1 big unit of coding, or 2 small?
I dont code that much outside of my work anymore, buy i could go for 17+ hours when I was younger.
"Your code time is the total time you have spent in your editor today. Your active code time is the time you spend actively writing and editing code in your editor or IDE".
They know as well as anybody the answer to the question on a statistical level, and can answer it personally for you too.
Their data shows most programmers code less than 1 hour a day, for a grand total of 4 hours 21 minutes a week: https://www.software.com/reports/code-time-report