In my experience maturing as a developer, I find that the time I spend writing code is getting increasingly shorter. What has grown is the time I spend thinking about what I am going to code.

Considering when I need to code a feature or some algorithm, I throw myself in bed or sofa, think of how I am going to solve it, the specific steps, and then I have a really clear picture of 80% of what I have to do. Then, I go back to the computer and just vomit the code out, literally. The last 20% I didn't think about just naturally answer themselves as the code is typed.

Its like I didn't think of Python or C anymore, it is just a bunch of cogs and wheels in my head that I just translate to whatever language I am working on at the time. The time I might take to figure out something might not be the shortest, but I hardly take more than a day to code a feature I have a clear picture of and am confortable with the stack..

For harder problems, I'd rather get a drawing board or pencil+paper than going to VS Code to "figure it out while doing it".