The biochemistry suggests there might be a thing. Alcohol slows down brain activity. This may seem like it would make coding harder but if your brain is racing and thinking of too many things at once then this slowing mean the brain starts to, with a task manager analogy, stop a bunch of extraneous tasks. This means you can focus more. The trade off is that you also have less CPU power for that task. But, many coding activities aren't that hard and so the increased focus more than counteracts the loss of power. The trick is staying in that very narrow band of blood alchohol where this holds. Too much more and the loss of brain power means the coding tasks will not go well at all.
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The biochemistry suggests there might be a thing. Alcohol slows down brain activity. This may seem like it would make coding harder but if your brain is racing and thinking of too many things at once then this slowing mean the brain starts to, with a task manager analogy, stop a bunch of extraneous tasks. This means you can focus more. The trade off is that you also have less CPU power for that task. But, many coding activities aren't that hard and so the increased focus more than counteracts the loss of power. The trick is staying in that very narrow band of blood alchohol where this holds. Too much more and the loss of brain power means the coding tasks will not go well at all.