Posted by padolsey 18 hours ago
Pre Texting, Pre Email in the 90s I believe this kind of work was normal. All this self motivated, hyper context switching jobs we all do are relatively new compared to human evolvement. And we see the tax on us.
Even when I was young, I discovered that after a certain level of fatigue my coding became garbage, and after a night's sleep I had to delete it and redo it. After this tipping point, I just stop doing the hard stuff. If I still want to work, I work on routine things that didn't take much concentration.
I never understood how people can write complex code when fatigued. I just get negatively productive trying that.
My best work happens at 2am, at about 4am I am too tired and get slow and get stuck, I think even then code quality suffers only a little bit.
That's just my experience, I believe it happens because if I am working at that time, I am hyped and or in the zone. There is a sort of second wind involved. The lack of distractions also helps I guess.
I’m still able to work as a software engineer, and my career has progressed, but the condition has held me back in a lot of ways.
Quite a recovery. No it's not me, just a dev that works in the same field.
Love this!