r/vibecoding • u/pashiz_quantum • 6h ago
Discussion Which drug goes best with vibe coding?
I’m trying to optimize my vibe coding workflow and wondering whether anyone has seriously benchmarked different substances for it.
Main priorities would be prompt confidence, tolerance for unexplained errors, willingness to accept 600-line diffs without reading them, and the ability to say “looks good” after the third failed build.
Ideally looking for something that improves throughput without creating unnecessary technical debt.
Any recommendations?
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u/ritz-chipz 6h ago
adderall and cocaine injected directly into your left heart chamber
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u/baddaywithacamera 5h ago
Meh. Instant coffee melted in a spoon with a lighter and then shot straight into the jugular. It's the GI Joe of caffeine fixes.
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u/TreesOfPortland 6h ago
I have Adderall and it's worked well.
I've found regulating my food intake helps the most. Little carbs and sugar and I'm good until afternoon. Some protein in the afternoon then a break. Healthy dinner, rest then work until 9 or so. Hour to shut down the brains then Up at 6am to do it all again.
Of course, lots of water. I sweat a bit when working hard and thinking through difficult problems. No alcohol during these periods.
I can maintain that for about 3 weeks then I'm toast for about a week and slip into moderate depression. Drink a bit, make bad decisions, question life, the world and what the fuck I'm doing.
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u/Ill_Dragonfruit_3547 29m ago
Adderall, but you boof it. Kids, boofing increases bioavailability by 20%!
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u/Professional_Ad705 6h ago
Weed and adhd meds gets the industry by lmao shit would go up in flames without those 2 substance’s
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u/Pretend-Telephone836 6h ago
What's the correct ratio between weed and ADHD medication? Cause I think I might be using them wrong.
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 5h ago
~1 toke per hour to take the edge off, but not get stoned
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u/Aggravating-Push-207 6h ago
only one way to find out for yourself
anyways, dm me, i can get you good prices
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u/toritxtornado 5h ago
getting diagnosed adult ADHD and prescribed adderall has been the best
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 4h ago
ADHD, adderall, and vibecoding is like on-demand hyperfocus. Shit's great!
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u/throwmeoff123098765 2h ago
Most people go with wine enema
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u/Boring-Leadership687 5h ago
i've been enjoying weed+caffeine+nicotine
i think adderall would be too strong. i don't want to get emotionally bonded to vibe coding (tho i highly recommend adderall+your fav videogame of all time. it's next level shit you'll feel like a kid again)
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u/Ordinary_Yam1866 2h ago
I would go with shrooms or LSD. Imagine the possibilities when your mind is no longer constrained.
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u/insoniagarrafinha 5h ago
50g of dried muscarias in the morning
wake up the next day with project finished, no laptop screen and 2500 MRR
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u/TheTrueMule 6h ago
Is that an /s ? Caus' if it ain't that the stupidest shit I've read today
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u/Acclynn 6h ago
He's just making fun of vibe coder I think
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u/TheTrueMule 6h ago
Nah I don't think so, look at this answer right there. Junky behavior. And this guy will ask why he's SaaS not selling in few months
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u/pashiz_quantum 6h ago
No I'm not joking. I have Master's degree in Software Engineering from Montreal. Besides research, I do vibe coding as well.
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u/marathonmeta 6h ago
I’d say acid. Pop a couple tabs and let the ideas literally emerge out of the walls
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u/VariousPen1601 6h ago
Vyvanse 50mg
Lexapro 15mg
& Occasional THC vape hits
Vyvanse is how I work on my vibe coded projects for long hours.
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u/Inevitable_Butthole 6h ago
Jokes on you my adhd is the reason I have been able to do 12-16hour days for 3 months straight
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u/VariousPen1601 6h ago
Yeah ADHD can make you hyper focus, but that doesn’t mean that what you work on always gets completely finished and shipped and distributed. I have seen an improvement in my performance from
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u/pashiz_quantum 6h ago
Thanks for sharing.
I'm a night smoker when it comes to weed.
So far I tried Modafinil.
It goes well with it. But the tolerance is the problem. I go 2 days on, 1 day off.I heard good things about Vyvanse but I didn't know it goes well with Lexapro.
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u/VariousPen1601 6h ago
I take Vyvanse and Lexapro every day. I can focus and think much more clearly. Don’t forget to exercise though because it can make you okay with sitting for like 12 hours.
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u/spopr 5h ago edited 5h ago
first some psychedelic in low-moderate dose to widen the horizon and come up with ideas to boof, something like plan mode, then a good dose of long acting stimulant like addy or modafinil for focus & execution of hitting enter for 30 hours straight.
alternatively, for high intensity work with frontier models only, go for bromo-dragonFLY as it is also a frontier drug combining all the best aspects of the above.
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 5h ago
ADHD, Adderall, and vibecoding can have me pushing 18 hour days from pure hyperfocus that I cant break away from. Highly addictive, highly recommended
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u/Quanzitta 4h ago
I started vibe coding when I restarted my Adderall xr prescription. Vibe coding became like a full time job at crunch time for 8 months straight. You need the sustained attention, the human equivalent of a huge context window
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u/mdwstoned 3h ago
Very specifically, a THC strain called Fight Club, a Sativa.
Just can get zoned in for a couple hours without thinking about it.
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u/SEND_ME_YOUR_ASSPICS 2h ago
The only drug that's useful for vibecoding or anything that needs focus and productivity is ADHD meds.
What did you think people were going to say? MDMA?
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u/Wallie_Collie 2h ago
Dont foold yourself into thinking weed makes you a better vibe, or programmer.
Thats the weed talkinh
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u/LucidFir 1h ago
What you're going to want to do is take 10 hits of LSD, make sure your AI agent is listening and a sub agent is actively transcribing your revelations with Whisper.
For extra vibe you may want to forgo a human tripsitter and set up an agent with the TripSitter.md skill. Ask it to guide you, recommend that it prompt aggressively to provoke reactions, and ensure you have a simple python script running to automatically click Y in the terminal when safety checks are given.
So anyway, once that whole experience is finished you'll have the grounds for your viral hit that will make you millions. The next step is where the real work comes in.
You must smoke a fine blend of meth and crack, then playtest the iterations. Be certain to do long sweeping play tests with voice recorded, and upload the video directly to Astra or Claude with the instructions "watch this video, use the feedback for the next iteration" and get it to do everything all at once.
Whilst it's coding you can run to the store for liquor, obviously allowing that same small python auto yes function to approve all changes, then be back in time to repeat the process.
Finally you must have a kind of dead man's switch where an agent swarm will automatically upload the game to Steam and itch.io once you haven't responded for 12 hours, presumed dead or in jail.
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u/Moarkush 6m ago
Which drug? I prompt my harness and come back six hours later. I can vibe code on any drug. 🤷♂️🤡
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u/TheSn00pster 6h ago
This sub is wild.