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I suspect it’s somewhat dependent on the starting mental state. ie might benefit someone who is tense more than someone that is relaxed.

I could totally see the relaxing effect outweighing the impairment for someone tense

You can certainly code faster when you have higher confidence and lower inhibitions. Stop worrying about correctness in edge cases, security, or long-term maintainability!

Maybe, but I've got a feeling there are some cases where it is actually objectively better not just "having a beer & doing some happy path coding" type better

..admittedly I think that window is vanishingly small...but I do think its there

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