Many engineers should be doing less work. I don’t necessarily mean producing less code or fewer changes, but literally working fewer hours in the day. When they do work, they should be working at a slower pace. I like to aim to be running at 80% utilization by default: unless I have a high-pressure project going on, I spend 20% of my workday away from the computer.
I actually agree with this.
Thinking about the problem is more important than writing the code.
It’s cheap to code and expensive to realize you built the wrong thing and your API is fucked.