> When you have weeks or months until your deadline, you might spend a lot of time thinking airily about how you could refactor the codebase to make your new feature fit in as elegantly as possible. When you have hours, you will typically be laser-focused on finding an approach that will actually work.
No, when I have hours, I am laser-focused on pissing off the manager who gave me so little necessary time to do the task. :-)