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1001 points genericlemon24 | 3 comments | 06 Sep 25 13:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.712s | source
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hedora ◴[06 Sep 25 15:33 UTC] No.45150191[source]▶
All the engineers that I’ve worked with that were doing 12 hour x 6 days ended up being drags on the rest of the team. Their 2am fever dream garbage would hit prod, and then it’d take a full time support person to apologize to customers while two full time engineers wasted a week refactoring production into something that worked.

Anyway, I’ve noticed I can only work 6 hours if I write code myself, but can easily hit 10 hours vibe coding / reviewing / writing the tricky bits.

Has anyone tried 10-4 these days? It’s still 40 hours per week, but feels more sustainable.

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wiseowise ◴[06 Sep 25 18:47 UTC] No.45151854[source]▶
10-4 is great, but that’s only 30 hours a week. Where did you get 40?
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1. b_e_n_t_o_n ◴[06 Sep 25 19:12 UTC] No.45152056[source]▶
10h 4 days / week
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2. wiseowise ◴[06 Sep 25 19:52 UTC] No.45152345[source]▶
Pfffft.
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3. uncircle ◴[07 Sep 25 06:47 UTC] No.45155956[source]▶
Exactly what I thought. 10am-4pm is sane, 10 hours a day is still crazy, but I guess to employees talking about 996, in comparison it seems a good deal.

I have been self employed for 12+ years, for 9am-1pm is a very productive day, and anyone that claim they can do much more actual knowledge work than that either is pushing papers or has a lot of down time and faffing about.

Also I’d rather work fewer hours 6 days a week, than pushing way past my productivity cramming everything in 4 days.