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“And it says that Comprehension took on average ~58%.”

Tudor Girbalepiter.io ↗

A 2018 field study of professional developers found 58% of their time went to understanding code, plus another 24% just navigating it. A 1979 textbook said much the same thing. Forty years of new languages and IDEs barely moved the number. The industry keeps buying tools to write code faster when the real cost is reading it.