Comment by godelski

  > he might shrug and say "I don't know"

I have far more trust for people willing to say this.

  > I would start blurting out half-baked ideas to fill the silence

I find that I'm more likely to do this but try to make an effort to stop. There's times to spitball but we should also spend time thinking. And let's be real 30-60s is not that long

  > This manager also typed with one or two fingers, and pretty slowly too. But he wrote a lot of good code.

I'll be honest, this is the big reason I don't get all the hype around coding agents. I do find them useful but typing isn't the bottleneck. Not even close. Plus, while typing is when I'm doing my best debugging and best simplifying.