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Memories of college days gone by.
Just get your rest folks. Work isn't going to give you a medal for "most late nights" or "closest flirtation with burnout". If your boss hasn't allocated enough resources to reach the goal timeline, you tell them as soon as you realize and then it's their problem.
Sleep is also when your brain finally goes "Hey why didn't you do this obvious solution?"
See also talking in the shower as a debugging method.
Yeah, if you break your back to get it sorted they just assume they allocated enough resources and will do it again.
It's super hard to let things fail sometimes but in some organizations it's the only actual signal they can respond to.
Nowadays they reply with You must use AI to be more productive.