Am I to believe that you think time spent writing code is the hard or main part of software engineering rather than the thought that went behind that code?
Writing the code is the easy part.
Writing the code is the easy part.
That's the key. To find the time thinking just fill in the gaps between the time spent coding. For ex, the GIF in this post https://wakatime.com/blog/27-fill-the-gaps-in-your-coding-ac...