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I’ve had many programming design breakthroughs while lifted. Write ‘em down, check ‘em the next day - many remain awesome (and some are confused).

Something about the heightened ability to focus on a single thing, deeply.

As you say - it’s a deeply personal thing. I also never actually smoke anymore. Edibles FTW

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One might consider that an artistic/creative revelation. Weed is definitely good for that.

"Why is this code breaking?" Not so much...

For you.

Carl Sagan touted pot's ability to help him with abstract mathematics, so YMMV.

Abstract mathematics, and finding bugs, are not terribly closely related skills.

They are in that they both require abstract thinking, working in rigid systems.

I totally disagree. Good bug fixing hinges on the ability to mentally organize multiple potential, interrelated points of failure. It's being able to have a working sense of the architecture and chain of logic without having to go back to the source too often.

The difference between abstract thinking and bug fixing is literally left vs. right brain.

Luckily, this point speaks to that:

> Something about the heightened ability to focus on a single thing, deeply.

I've found it helpful in sussing out tricky bugs that otherwise eluded me, in addition to it helping with the more creative aspects of software development.

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