How do you program for 8h in a row? - Bite code!
Most coders can’t program for 8 hours a day, at least on a regular basis. Those who can without chemical aids are not the majority, those who want to are less than that, and those who actually do even less.
Not to say those people don’t exist, they do, and they can be fantastic colleagues. But if you can’t, this doesn’t mean you don’t have a future as a dev.
Human characteristics are often Gaussian. IQ, weight, height, all follow a distribution where most individuals are close to the average, and extreme values are underrepresented.
Coding is a complex activity that requires a lot of effort. It’s strenuous because you have to maintain focus and abstract thinking, while holding a lot of information in your head, plus juggling with various interconnected contexts in a field where the quantity of information is very large.
The ability to sustain this process for a long period of time is, as you can imagine, also following the Normal law. So most humans are in the middle of the curve, where they can comfortably perform it for a few hours at a time.
