How much of ur job is spent actually innovating and designing new architecture and how much of it is just copy pasting libraries and preexisting APIs?

10% each, the remaining 80 is debugging.

... of the time you actually work on code. Which is one third of the time you work, the rest is expectation management.

As architect I think actually innovating is probably less 1%, the rest is meetings to either understand the problem to be solved or explaining the solution to stake holders and the developers or investigating why something did not work as expected.

Most of the time actually hatching the idea is a very short brainstorming iterating an idea into a useful solution.

Occasionally there are some solutions that take more time, where I need to write some examples to test ideas but most take just a few minutes to flesh out.

Actually implementing can take more time but thats often not so much innovation as engineering :), and its also done by the developers, not me.

By that time I spend most time keeping everyone else away from the development so they can get the work done while I keep all middle management pent up in meetings :D

Most of my time is spent reading code, or running it to understand in depth what it's doing. 95% of the code I write is very very simple, it could be written by a monkey.

@Voxera already got the "actually useful information" out of the way, so I can just bring some snark like "75% of the time is just meetings, 20% is handling production bugs, 10% is just low value busywork chores and another 5% is innovating" That sums up to 110% of your time, because you are gonna get at least 10% overtime every week to be able to do something out of the ordinary. And just the ordinary is like 105% of your time.

80% new architecture, 20% copying and pasting.
Designing data models is by far the hardest challenge for my adhd brain. Thinking of multiple entities in parallel and figuring out the ways to connect them with the least number of paradoxes make me completely lose it after two hours. Afterwards, I get migraine and sore eyes, for some reason. If I then go to a party or a shopping mall where it’s loud and a lot is going on, I’ll get a derealisation episode.

Guess what? That’s my favorite part of my job.