There are all sort of programmers. I personally am sensitive to the creative side of it. Problems tend to have an infinite number of solutions and I feel unsati

There are all sort of programmers. I personally am sensitive to the creative side of it. Problems tend to have an infinite number of solutions and I feel unsatisfied if I don't get close to the ideal one. I can feel my solution is wrong and I can feel when I get inspired out of nowhere. I have no control on this, the only solution I found for this is to let the problem macerate for a few hours/days if it's possible. I think it's analogous to a painter artist who leaves his frame unfinished for days/months and comes back to it till he feels satisfied. It's the creative part of the job that's uncompressible. Of course you can have programming jobs with no creative part, in which case you can do 10x sometimes 100x depending on who you compare yourself to