I understand your comment and see the sense in it, but it made me wonder about decomposing the clauses to see what it means if it gets broken apart (excusing myself for over analyzing what is a simple statement)
>somewhere, at some stage
Well - why not on a video conference? And what stage(s) really require this? Most folks know what they are supposed to do / need to do to make things work - those that don't are in need of supervision / mentoring.
>people must get together to help you decide what to work on?
I misread this initially as "decide what you should work on" but I still think that there's not enough emphasis on the "we" part - in that really I see these decisions as being about co-ordination and helping everyone else out as much as anything else.
Others like myself want to disappear into a dark room and code for hours on end.
Is the antithesis of working out business requirements / design etc so you have something to code?
I find the coding part of my job is about 5-10% of the actual job, mostly, it's working out what needs to be done, how I might go about it, and how to manage complexity.
It's rare that can be all done without input from others. I don't think I'd get very far if I just coded in a dark room for hours on end.
It's the old adage "you can go faster alone but you go further together"
We hear about how people are now working much faster due to remote. Which is not surprising. But it's not really clear if that will yield to things going much further.
Others like myself want to disappear into a dark room and code for hours on end.