Nah, all the Gen Z programmers I know are fueled exclusively by energy drinks! None of them drink coffee.
The ones my age and older, on the other hand…
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Developing a taste for black coffee is where it's at.
All the caffeine, none of the calories.
But if it doesn't have calories then I need to stop and eat.
and maximum laxative effect
Spoken like someone who can tolerate lactose.
That's true. If I put milk in my coffee it's WAY more laxative than black lmao
I’m a millennial and I’m an energy drink guy.
Expensive. Do not recommend.
I'm a millennial and I can only afford caffeine pills.
Depressing. Do not recommend.
Coffe>>
Guess I'm not a programmer since I only mainline green tea, can't stand the taste of coffee.
I'm personally a black tea fan, it's just a joke on your average programmer's caffeine addiction.
I know ;) it's okay, and all in good fun. Just a little tired of only finding "I'm a machine that turns coffee into code" shirts when I look for funny coding t-shirts
Traitor. You shall be punished with finding a memory leak in vibe coded ASM
Argh! No, please! Please no!
Yes! Green tea is my morning beverage. It tastes so good. And when I go out and get something fancy, it is matcha latte.
I spent the last two decades coding between coffee cups. I loved it. I would bounce of bed each morning with my mind buzzing with ideas to employ in my job.
Then I had to work in a different timezone. Can't drink coffee in the evening, because otherwise I don't sleep at midnight.
Every day is hell. I expend significant effort to overcome brainfog and motivate myself to work. It's a losing battle. It's also an eye opener of exactly how much I like what I'm doing, which isn't very much. I wonder if it was just the caffeine all along
- coffee is only good for keeping the eyes open and doesn't seem to help me with mental activity. It also makes the eyes itchy when it is finally time to sleep.
- green tea. Never tried that
I just go with cloves and cinnamon. Coffee is too strong for me and not worth the addiction.
Thats just a different kind of coffeine, no?
Mate, coffee and tea (or was it cacao, coffee and tea) seperately developed a coffein-like substance.
Caffeine, nicotine and glucose, the holy trinity of productivity.
Coffee gives me heart palpitations, and I don't drink much tea any more. Does that mean I have to hand in my programmer card? :(
I similarly had to give up caffeine after an ER scare late last year. I didn't turn in the card, but geeez I had no idea how hard raw dogging the work week would be.
That's why I quit coffee. Tea doesn't do that to me for whatever reason, probably just less caffeine total.
But I assume it also had something to do with high blood pressure.
Some of us a powered by medical grade stimulants.
Eh, just one per day or my addiction kicks in again.
don't talk to me until I've had my one per day
I could stop having one per day, anytime I want
I'm literally shaking, thinking about having my next one per day
Nono I only code using pure willpower
Give me more cups of coffee than I have blood in my body
Make my blood into coffee
Coffee my blood
Tbh I think I’ve gotten about 10 hours combined sleep in the past week going to town on this latest project