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The crazy thing is that well-rested development is better development.
Many is the time I stayed up past midnight working on a task, come into work the next day, and threw it all away because I realized there was a better solution.
Managers don’t understand this.
Humans also frequently need to try a wrong approach first to get the idea of a better approach, no matter if we're rested or not. Which is why it's important to be able to throw away prototypes rather than push an "it seemed like a good idea at the time" to prod.
But having a good sleep, walk in a park, shower, etc lets us think better than if we're just banging our heads in the same corner all day long. Breaks are important. General health, too.
The ultimate reason is that developers by and large were successfully convinced by the ruling class that they didn't need unions to advocate for their quality of life as it pertains to their career.
This is what the tiny part of a massive iceberg of consequences poking above the surface look like.
Been coding for decades: burned out several times. I always return later after other jobs
I think the most job satisfaction I ever had was demolishing a house, another good thing for me was delivering pizzas.
So, did you quit your job as a developer and delivered pizzas for a while?
Yes, although I still worked on my own projects.
I have drifted from professional to other for many years.
Now that I have coded for two generations now, I often think I should have chosen some main occupation that was not a sit down job.
But it is what it is, and I will probably program more than anything else for the rest of my working life
