> I think lots of devs feel weird about coding for 20 or less hours a week because it’s the part we associate with work when in reality we’re delivering real business value in those stupid meetings, it just manifests outside our view.

Blink twice if you’re saying this under duress, because otherwise, this just sounds like post hoc justification from someone who gave up and dedicated themselves to promulgating the soul-sucking management games that made producing real value untenable.

Spending less than 20 hours a week actually writing software is a horrendous use of a developer’s time. It’s a marvel if anything intelligent gets written at all in such an environment.