Are there any general techniques to speed up my coding?

Are there any general techniques to speed up my coding?
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mcwise asks:

I am preparing for a programming contest where we have to code in C++ and it is all about producing working code in a short time. An example would be to use a macro to get the minimum of two ints or using memsets to initialize arrays (but I was told that you shouldn't use either here).

This leads to the question: what kind of coding techniques exist to speed up coding at a real job?

Related: "Software design: Build it fast or build it well?"

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