Even with the high end machine it still takes 27 minutes. If I have a 27 minute build I am absolutely going to context switch. If it’s more than about 3 minutes I am probably going to context switch.

An interesting experiment would be to find the switch-time threshold for a wide range of developers.

Typically I don’t rely on a full build for getting things accomplished, and not CI if I can help it. Local, incremental, and minimal path to feedback is what I aim for.