This is often overlooked and undervalued — upfront time spent on understanding the problem and designing before getting down to the actual work ends-up saving a lot of actual time. But most people don't have patience for that and think it is wasted time.
Yeah I've only been coding professionally for a year now and I do SO MUCH MORE reading/researching, planning, annotating, and pseudo coding than I ever did when I started.
The outcomes are so much more predictable / better quality.
