This definitely applies to programming as well. It's not uncommon to see people happily churning out mountains of highly redundant and repetitive code, or zealo

This definitely applies to programming as well. It's not uncommon to see people happily churning out mountains of highly redundant and repetitive code, or zealously pursuing far-reaching nit-picky refactors of dubious benefit and I think it's simply because the act of writing code and running tests and watching them go green is fun.