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You can't say this and not mention Factorio. Software engineering at the limit is just like industrial engineering except you work with bits. You need to be aware of your pipelines and timelines to ensure maximum throughput.

To run with the metaphor further, you could call it a kind of instrumental play, which is the type of play where it is actually socially rude to have consistent low performance. https://www.academia.edu/34821396/Instrumental_Play