Yes.

Like @disiplus, that happened to me for a long time.

During high school, college and afterwards, it was just easier to work at night and just stay up until very late. Also having a deadline around the corner gave me the right amount of stress to finally code the solution.

It’s not like I didn’t try to work during the day or wasn’t thinking of trying to solve the problem. I actually thought of it and worked out things in my head, I just had trouble sitting and coding it during the day. At night, very late until early in the morning I would just sit and dump it all out.

Side projects can still be like that.

At work, I’ve learned to manage it. I really enjoy the position I’m in. I work on a lot of projects, have a set of tasks that maybe fill half my day during the week but I can be pulled into meetings, called to fix something else, review code, or help other devs.

It’s can be a lot, but it’s working right now.

That's very similar to my experience.

for years that was how i worked, without medicine i cannot work in the morning. but i would regularly stay till 2am working.

I have no diagnosticed mental health issue but I was like that too until very recently. I started running once (sometimes twice) a week since a month and I noticed I can wake up before twelve now, I’m generally happier during the day and I can start doing things instead of just thinking a bit easier, even if it’s still far from perfect.

My advices for people who didn’t run for years like I was:

- starting low (500m or 2min) is the key. Better run a little than not

- increment a bit each time

- an Apple Watch (or other tracker) is awesome to set a goal and track progression during running. You can export health data on a PC and then do geek stuff with it