--- title: Coding is NOT 90% of Your Job! | daily.dev description: A developer argues that writing code is a small fraction of a programming job, estimating actual coding at only 5-15% of the work. The rest, over 80%, is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-is-not-90-of-your-job--r7ounersn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Coding is NOT 90% of Your Job! | daily.dev og:description: A developer argues that writing code is a small fraction of a programming job, estimating actual coding at only 5-15% of the work. The rest, over 80%, is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/coding-is-not-90-of-your-job--r7ounersn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/r7oUnErsN.png og:image:alt: Coding is NOT 90% of Your Job! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Coding is NOT 90% of Your Job! **[The Serious CTO](https://daily.dev/sources/seriouscto)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A developer argues that writing code is a small fraction of a programming job, estimating actual coding at only 5-15% of the work. The rest, over 80%, is solving problems, often involving communicating with non-technical stakeholders who don't understand the underlying technology. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@thiagorodrigues53** · 3 upvotes > you know, it depends, > there are some jobs where actual coding will take a big time of the work, some others, meetings and planning. > it depends ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Code was the smallest part of the job](https://daily.dev/posts/code-was-the-smallest-part-of-the-job-jodmlbnfz) · Tech World With Milan · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/coding-is-not-90-of-your-job--r7ounersn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Coding is NOT 90% of Your Job!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-is-not-90-of-your-job--r7ounersn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/coding-is-not-90-of-your-job--r7ounersn"},"datePublished":"2026-09-02T23:59:12.661Z","dateModified":"2026-09-02T23:59:26.132Z","description":"A developer argues that writing code is a small fraction of a programming job, estimating actual coding at only 5-15% of the work. 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