Because your brain needs a break from debugging life, not just code.
If you're a web developer, you already know the drill: on-calls, stand-ups, testing, launch days, back-to-back meetings. You just want to vibe out and code, but the day has other plans.
Thanks to AI, code gets pushed faster than ever, but somehow the bugs keep coming just as fast.
By the end of the day, you're craving no-screen time. Maybe you've felt it too: that specific kind of numb that comes from having your flow state interrupted over and over, whether by demands, deadlines, or meetings that could've been an email.
It's not just tiredness, it's a kind of static in your brain that doesn't go away just because you closed your laptop.
