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Discussion on: Grinding as a developer

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Jan Küster • Edited

I think you need to differenciate between grinding and crunch time. With grinding I understand that I stay focused on solving one (often ugly) problem or task until it's done. After this things go back to normal.

Crunch time in contrast is when there is a milestone coming up and all remaining work (including former mentioned "ugly" work) needs to be done with no exception. Depending on the workload and remaining time this can be exhaustive to all your maximum. Think of the people on Code red when Cyberpunk was about to be released...