[epolanski]

I have coded many times when high (very rarely on somebody's dime, but it may have happened during Covid few times): you end up doing very little.

Occasionally you'll have some crazy idea and follow it, the kind of ideas that you don't have normally.

But in general your productivity will be very low and results poor.

Don't do any kind of drugs or alcohol if you need your brain to be sharp. It's nonsense.

[mass_and_energy]

Hear hear, if you think you're coding better when you're stoned, you're only thinking that when you're stoned. Studies have shown that while cannabis makes you think you're more creative, it actually makes you less creative. This, combined with losing train of thought and having to reread code to find your place before you zoned out makes for a whole lot of wasted time. And it churns out the kind of code you revisit and think "how did this take me 2 hours?". It's a libation, it doesn't mix with work plain and simple.

[epolanski]

I didn't say I code better when stoned, I literally said it's not a good idea.

I said that I end up doing stuff that I usually don't, that's a different thing.

[gremlinsinc]

that's me on a normal day without ADHD meds... and even then if I'm in a depressive funk, I can't think for shit. Hyper focus though can be glorious and make me feel like a 10x programmer for a few days lol..

[epolanski]

When did you start taking adhd meds? I've noticed many many americans start as children and then basically can't function as adults without meds.

This is very rare in Europe.

[wahnfrieden]

> you end up doing very little

Speak for yourself

The study is also not about user-facing software development, it's about leetcode algorithmic puzzles as performed mostly by students still in education and without professional experience. Despite their prevalence in interviews and impassioned defense of relevancy, at least I encounter very little of that sort of coding in day to day applications development of any sort.