> If only they would just leave me alone! I would sit in silence for 4 hours pondering the depths of the system at hand. Then I would spend 30 minutes invoking VIM macros at 240 actions/minute (that's why I spent 12 years integrating VIM into my lower cortex, after all). Then I would spend 5 minutes admiring the perfection of my creation before retiring to the pub. Tomorrow, everyone will find everything just works so much better than yesterday and they won't even know how or why. I'll just lean back and say "You're Welcome."
But, the reality is that you don't work in a vacuum; you don't know the whole situation; your proposed solution probably isn't as good as you'd like to think it is; other people are doing stupid things and breaking stuff because you never mentor them; you are doing stupid things and breaking stuff because other people aren't informing you about what you should be doing better; even when you are actively working on code, you spend less than 5% of your time actually typing code; if you are a senior engineer working on non-trivial systems, you probably spend more time sorting out how other people's code works than your own.
These realities don't fit the http://hackertyper.net/ narrative. They're embarrassing and require inter-personal effort to resolve. But, brushing them off is making you a whole lot less productive than you should be.