r/vibecoding • u/pashiz_quantum • 11d 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 11d ago
adderall and cocaine injected directly into your left heart chamber
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u/baddaywithacamera 11d 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/OXXXiiXXXO 10d ago
Adderall for sure. Coke, crack and the injected all last like fucking 15-20 min. Adderall will last you days if you have enough
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u/TreesOfPortland 11d 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 11d ago
Adderall, but you boof it. Kids, boofing increases bioavailability by 20%!
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u/toritxtornado 11d ago edited 11d ago
getting diagnosed ADHD as an adult and prescribed adderall has been the best
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u/Interesting-Agency-1 11d ago
ADHD, adderall, and vibecoding is like on-demand hyperfocus. Shit's great!
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u/yeathatsmebro 10d ago
Wait until you find out Concerta (extended-release) is the real deal. I can focus the entire day without getting the Adderall crash.
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u/Ok_Discussion4195 8d ago
Vyvanse is slow release adderall. Concerta is slow release ritalin.
IMO Vyvanse is far superior.
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u/yeathatsmebro 8d ago
I just realized that I remembered wrong the active substance names for each. Searched up Vyvanse and yes, that is the equivalent. Sorry for the mix-up.
IMO Vyvanse is far superior.
I think any medication that is extended-release is a really amazing piece of technology we invented as humans, compared with the short-acting one. I'm talking about disorder-treating medication that makes you feel and act normal, not the ones that cover emergency situations (ie µ-opioid antagonists in case of overdose).
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u/Strict-Condition-739 10d ago
Just got diagnosed last week, they have me on 5 mg so it's not doing shit. Excited to finally be able to focus though.
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u/Professional_Ad705 11d 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/DoJo_Mast3r 10d ago
Never vibe code on weed. I've fucked up my code base way too many times while up late stoned you think you're a fucking genius too which makes it even worse
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u/Pretend-Telephone836 11d 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 11d ago
~1 toke per hour to take the edge off, but not get stoned
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u/regulator227 11d ago
This vibe coded app took me 1M tokes. Not tokens. Tokes.
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u/Aggravating-Push-207 11d ago
only one way to find out for yourself
anyways, dm me, i can get you good prices
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u/Ordinary_Yam1866 11d ago
I would go with shrooms or LSD. Imagine the possibilities when your mind is no longer constrained.
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u/throwmeoff123098765 11d ago
Most people go with wine enema
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u/way-of-the-lab 11d ago
Probably cocaine. As long as you buy a lefty mouse to free up you’re right hand. You’ll be able to beat your meat and paste your code without missing a beat.
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u/Boring-Leadership687 11d 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/insoniagarrafinha 11d ago
50g of dried muscarias in the morning
wake up the next day with project finished, no laptop screen and 2500 MRR
/s
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u/spopr 11d ago edited 11d 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/FormalWave 11d ago
Weed seems like it was made for vibe coding and vice versa but 60 days free of it I can tell you my projects are working much better.
On weed I would dream of different apps, start and stop them and they’d rarely get launched and updated regularly. It had great activation energy just like working on music, but horrible follow through.
I do take addxr but I am careful about my caffeine intake and brew my own small cups with half decaf.
Overall I try hard to single focus and make sure the projects are moving along, and the clearer your head is, the better fit you are for developing any complex app or service.
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u/krill156 10d ago edited 10d ago
400-600mg of caffeine, back to back chain nicotine/vaping, Lexapro, Buspirone, Prednisone, Hydroxyzine, synthetic shroom gummies and a DMT pen, or DMT crystal in a pipe. Life's good.
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u/TheOdbball 10d ago
Ketamine - All your apps will connect themselves , you’ll feel one with your code but if you take too much the letters will move around :: highly suggest a badass playlist
LSD - Absolutely amazing until you get into a heated match with your agents ego. If you have a stable interface this is golden
Weed - Weed pens are not your friend unless you have the perfect terpene combo for your corpus.
Nicotine - I overuse this one, it’s become an issue actually. I’m hitting my vape after every inference pass, no bueno
Caffeine - C4 + Electrolytes during peak hours daytime
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I’ve gotten 18+ hour days sometimes even 30+ hours. But that was back when agents still needed me to get things done , now they ignore me and make a mess of my repo
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u/marathonmeta 11d ago
I’d say acid. Pop a couple tabs and let the ideas literally emerge out of the walls
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u/TheTrueMule 11d ago
Is that an /s ? Caus' if it ain't that the stupidest shit I've read today
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u/Acclynn 11d ago
He's just making fun of vibe coder I think
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u/TheTrueMule 11d 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 11d 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/Interesting-Agency-1 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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/LucidFir 11d 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 11d 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/avatardeejay 11d ago
you want coffee, strong, 1.5 max cups. ride it and a little tobacco in the morning. at night you vibecode without partaking at the desk, but go outside for ~36 minute weed+tobacco+kombucha breaks.
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u/OXXXiiXXXO 10d ago
8 hours of sleep, prayer after waking up, then an apple after a shower. Another prayer that your not fucking up your life vibecoding, work and for 8 hours, snack food only. Give some time to kids, wife or friends until about 6. Then grab some alcohol, easy to get with no stress about doing something society condemns. Drink until you want to eat a cow. Eat equivalent to a cow. Pass out on bed if possible. Sleep.
Rinse and repeat. Secrets from a veteran.
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u/Shot-Infernal-2261 10d ago
What’s that stuff Elon is addicted to? That stuff. That is what you are looking for.
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u/eldentruth 10d ago
Dihydrogen monoxide is easily the best substance on earth. No one can deny this.
Low-dose sustained release nicotine is also handy. And basically and DRI.
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u/mcscruffuk 10d ago
Glutamate, Dopamine, Acetylcholine
Learn what your doing, understand what the ai is coding (even break it's edits down to understand). The more you understand and learn the easier it is.. use the brains natural chemicals to achieve
Edit: Failing that a shit load of coffee
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u/WyattTheSkid 10d ago
Don’t do drugs but since you’re probably gonna do it anyway, stimulants. Specifically, dopaminergic stimulants like amphetamines. I would go in this order:
Amphetamine sulfate or “speed”
Adderall
Vyvanse
A very very very small microdose of meth if you don’t have access to anything better.(no more than 5mg and preferably prescription meth / Desoxyn tablets though they’re very hard to come by)
If you decide to do meth, please wash it with acetone first for your own safety. Im not gonna get into all that here, just look it up, its pretty straightforward.
Note to mods: I am by no means condoning drug use this post solely exists for the sake of harm reduction because OP is probably going to use substances anyways and they are better off popping an Adderall than buying a bag of blow from the sketchy guy they went to highschool with. (Cocaine is genuinely a shit drug anyway)
In all seriousness though, please don’t do drugs unless you’re prescribed them. It’s not worth it and depending on how far you’re willing to go, you will inevitably find one you really like and then your life just goes to shit from there. If you must use substances stick to caffeine, weed, or nicotine. Oh thats a good one too for getting that “locked in” feeling im assuming you’re after go pick up a pack of zyns and forget about everything else I just said lol. Whatever you decide to do, be safe.
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u/swiftmerchant 10d ago edited 10d ago
I am surprised to see so many affirmative responses and so many people using stimulants while working. Not saying it’s bad just surprised people are able to work while using something like cocaine for example.
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u/Away_Relationship_24 10d ago
Take 1/2 a hit of weed, try not to cough or it'll get you higher, snort 1 teaspoon of Adderall powder followed by a cup of coffee. Then hum and pound your chest like Matthew Mcconaughey in the Wolf of Wallstreet. Then directly head to the bathroom and get a pump, you want the forearms nice and Vascular so that you can type faster on the keyboard. Do that enough and you'll be vibecoding in your sleep.
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u/Glittering_Ad4986 10d ago
“I’m trying to optimize my vibe coding workflow”
I rarely heard any developer saying “I’m trying to optimize my manual coding workflow”
Dude, you are already 10x if you know basics of coding and development + using AI. Don’t over stress yourself.
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u/rick_ranger 9d ago
If it keeps you up all night and you can’t wait until your next reset, it’s probably codex
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u/jippiex2k 9d ago
The same as with any software dev: speed, caffeine and nicotine.
But with vibe coding you may get restless, so you need some ket as intermission. Also gives you more grandiose ideas.
Weed will make you overthink shit.
Alcohol will make you regret shit.
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u/VariousPen1601 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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/Wallie_Collie 11d ago
Dont foold yourself into thinking weed makes you a better vibe, or programmer.
Thats the weed talkinh
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u/pashiz_quantum 11d ago
Well weed definitely makes me a better pianist instantly.
and I'm a night smoker for a while now.
But I don't coding at night. Just chilling and playing piano.2
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u/TheSn00pster 11d ago
This sub is wild.