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Ask HN: How many hours a day do you program for work?

2 pointsby enonoabout 2 years ago
How many hours a day &#x2F; week do y&#x27;all actually code for your jobs? I&#x27;m having trouble reconciling the<p>&quot;I&#x27;m constantly grinding 24&#x2F;7 bro&quot; SWE&#x27;s on here and the<p>&quot;I code two hours a day in between yoga breaks&quot; washed up Google engineers.

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bradwoodabout 2 years ago
As a CTO in 20 person shop it&#x27;s very variable. Sometimes it&#x27;s 4-6 hours in a day. Other times it could be weeks before I write anything more than a bash 1-liner.