You're "sleeping on it" that's what everyone does, or should do. totally fine thing to be doing.

Last night, i wasthinking about what i would be doing today with gpt-oss-20b now that it actually works with tools.

I'm finding aider is my front runner right now.

>Either you encounter a new problem regularly that you don't know how to solve by bedtime; or you have long standing unsolved problems?

I wish i had the Steve jobs video to link. You're dealing with prioritization. I think it was 80/20. You spend 80% of your time awake fixing problems that matter. You can only work on 20% of nonsense that doesnt matter. Most people in his experience are more so working 20% on what matters and 80% on nonsense.

If you're 'sleeping on it" night after night. You're likely not prioritizing fixing stuff; you're working on the wrong things.

>In my experience this is what causes burnout at the fundamental level.

I look at a random page for "causes of job burnout" and they are all the 20%.