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if i go home I am just going to play xbox, would it not be spent better writing code?

You need to quantify what "better" means here to even begin to answer this question:

- better for your mental health to take a break or have some fun?

- better for your code quality to not introduce mistakes due to tiredness?

- better from some economic standpoint because you petceive the increased value in what you produce to be greater than what you value xbox-time at?

Perhaps you're a workaholic. If so, I wouldn't be surprised that the idea of just unwinding for a while seems strange and alien. If you don't want to do it more power to you, but to those that do - they tend to think of it as an investment in their health.

You can (and probably will) burn out at that rate. I've heard this argument many times, and of those times 50% of burn outs left the industry.