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Yeah I think I found roughly 4 hours as the average over the course of a month, ranging from zero to about 10.

At my startup we had people track time on ‘real’ work tasks and found that four hours was about the max anyone could (happily and productively) do each day, which was fairly consistent across roles as well.

For me it depends. I'm still fairly new and trying to find good solutions to things, so some times I might get hardly anything done because I'm just thinking about what to do or trying various stuff to see how an idea ends up. But when I'm doing things I know I can spend more than 8 hours working productively.

On average it's probably less than 6 hours of actually writing code per day though.

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