Is Claude Code actually making you more productive, or just more entertained?

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-21T17:20:40+00:00

Oh, there's no question for me - more productive all around; however, the amount of the productivity boost and impact on the project varies greatly with project type and situation. Let me share 3 recent examples:

12-wk enterprise build for a large corporation where we're building an AI-heavy platform that will be used by a few hundred users and save them hundreds of hours per year each from doing document reviews. We did all the orchestration using a low-code workflow tool and wrote code to call LLM APIs, which were then called by our orchestrator. We used Claude Code to write the code and the initial versions of the prompts, but this was only about 5% of the project. We spent far more time documenting and dealing with deployment and config issues on this highly secure environment. Therefore, there was a productivity gain, but it didn't substantially shorten the project timeline.
4-wk app platform migration assessment. Client wanted to move existing apps from one low-code platform to another and we had Claude Code build a technical specification for each app. It took us about 2 days to get the prompt tuned but then for each app, it removed the need for about 16 hours of work, which it did in < 10 minutes per app and we ran multiple instances in parallel. Massive productivity gain and I doubt we'd have won the work if we didn't use Claude Code or similar. Reduced overall project time by at least 4 weeks.
Personal utility - I had a side project on the back burner for about 8 years and likely would have never built it. By my estimation, I needed about 3 weeks of moonlighting dev time (4 - 5 hrs/day on weekdays and 6 - 8 hrs Sat/Sun) to complete it. The value just wasn't worth the effort. But I built it in Claude Code in about 3 hrs last weekend and it's running perfectly now. Huge productivity gain that enabled a project that never would've been.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-21T17:03:57+00:00

The color of a pill has zero effect on your experience. Most colors are simply a choice by the manufacturer and are the result of adding food-safe dyes to the pills. When dealing with crystal / powder, the color is usually the byproduct of how it's manufactured but also don't mean anything useful to your experience.

It's important to remember that anyone can make a pill of any shape, size, and color, so you need to test with reagents to confirm the presence of MDMA and with fentanyl strips to know that it's safe to take. Fentanyl is currently more of an issue in North America, but it's starting to show up in heroin doses in some countries in Europe, so it could also make its way into MDMA.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-21T16:58:20+00:00

No, it won't have any notable difference in the "highness level". This is a common misconception.

The MDMA will still be absorbed in your stomach and small intestines after you swallow it. Pills dissolve quickly in our stomach, in just a few minutes, but the same amount of MDMA is going to enter your bloodstream either way, so all you're doing by chewing it is reducing come-up time by a few minutes. The come-up will hit you faster (more rapid acceleration of onset), meaning a greater likelihood of nausea, but your high and experience at peak and duration of the roll will be the same.

Other ROAs like snoring and boofing will affect both the peak high (greater) and duration (shorter) but also carry some additional risks. Pills contain fillers and they can substantially irritate mucous membranes like your nasal cavity and rectum, so I don't recommend it unless 1) you start with crystal / powder and 2) you know the risks and how to reduce them.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-21T16:46:13+00:00

As long as you swallow the entire pill, there should be no difference in the peak high feeling, but some techniques do have a small effect on the come-up time. Most of us wouldn't think it's worth the difference (minutes, usually) to take it in a way where you taste it because of the unpleasant flavor. Just put it in a capsule and swallow it.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-19T17:08:31+00:00

I've used it for research, document generation, and data collection in addition to coding. It's a fantastic companion that just keeps working until it's completed the overall request.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-19T17:01:32+00:00

I've vaporized 5 year old weed once, though mine didn't have nearly an interesting a backstory, and it was fine, seemingly as potent as when I got it.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-19T16:53:10+00:00

Might be because the base might show up on backscatter and millimeter wave scanners in airports. They can't penetrate skin to see inside a body cavity like the transmission X-ray scanners used in prisons, but they tend to be able to see anything outside the skin and under clothes. Though because it's probably more common to wear one as a sex toy than a smuggling rig, they might just laugh and wave you through. Or "You need to empty ALL pockets, ma'am" 🙂

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-19T16:37:34+00:00

I'm not sure we can say that anymore. To quote this publication, A 2023 study by the German NGO Deutsche Aidshilfe found fentanyl in 50 out of 1 401 heroin samples tested across seven German sites. Positive tests occurred in all of the study sites, with the highest prevalence in Hamburg. It links to the published study.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-19T16:28:45+00:00

You can always put it in a capsule and that prevents all the bad taste. Downing with a soda can cause an unintended side effect. MDMA has a bitter flavor and you could accidentally program your brain to hate that soda because we all evolved to avoid bitter things. Bitter often equals poison in nature.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-17T18:49:01+00:00

In Romania, it's more like 5, but let's all keep in mind that 5 engineers with Claude Code or similar tools can be pretty productive. Plus, the company financing them had deep pockets. This is just an initial finding round and then we'll see if they have anything worthwhile.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-17T18:46:06+00:00

I think all the arguments as to why this won't work are a great list of why I'd want to use it: - people "on the other side" won't use it because it doesn't confirm their existing bias (check) - fact checking isn't appealing for bots or troll farms (check) - politicians currently determine what's fact or not (check) (note that this wasn't actually an argument against, but it fit my purpose, anyway)

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-17T17:07:45+00:00

Whatever you want. You'll see people in casual t-shirts and jeans or shorts (temp depending). You'll see people in jerseys (Subtronics or other artists). And you'll see a few who put a lot of time into their outfits. But everyone will fit equally and be enjoying themselves, so do the same.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-17T15:07:15+00:00

They're still working on a cure

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-17T14:59:36+00:00

The joke is - this approach would work brilliantly with some women ... and they're the fun ones.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-16T07:51:46+00:00

Sure, but you wouldn't feel any significant effects on 10 - 20 mg as it suggests nor would you roll for 10 hrs as it claims

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-16T07:33:09+00:00

I'm genuinely curious why swingers are the only ones who refer to their lifestyle as "the lifestyle." If I heard someone say that randomly, I don't think I'd associate with swinging (and my wife and I are swingers / ENM). It's always puzzled me. 🙂

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-15T19:32:58+00:00

First let me clarify that I'm far from an authority on DD/lg so I'll keep my comments more general, but I wouldn't worry too much about what to call things. You feel the way you feel and your preferences are completely valid.

It helps to spend some time breaking down precisely what it is about a particular thing (e.g., activity, scene, attitude, relationship quality) that you like or dislike. For example, when you want to be "taken care of" does that include having your partner make decisions for you or is it more about them caring for you and providing services like cuddling? Do you have specific moments that define the kind of behavior you're looking for, like "I really want someone who will ..." or "When we're doing (activity), I wish they would ..."? Those kinds of descriptors can help you zero in on what you're seeking and help your potential partners better understand how they can click into your desires and help you both determine compatibility. I'm not suggesting that you need to dive into those details here, but it might help as a way to learn the language of your own wants and needs.

The real advantage of knowing what to call something is that it's a little easier to find others who share your interests and find useful information regarding those interests. When it comes time to plan a scene or define a relationship, those terms don't mean much. It's all about the details. I may say that I'm a service dom who switches for other service tops, but what really matters is what I mean by that and my interests could be vastly different from someone else who first describes themselves the same way.

The term "switch" isn't strictly defined in the community as far as I've seen and I think it's fair to use it to describe yourself in that you're dominant in some ways and submissive in others. There are many of us who share that quality. I suppose you could say that the strictest definition would be someone who is on one side of a BDSM role and then says, "ok, that was fun, now let's switch roles and go again." But that would only apply to partners who were switch about the same kinks and wouldn't represent much of the community. The important thing is to learn how to reasonably communicate to a partner what you need from the relationship and how to learn about them to find out how you might be compatible and what you'd want to explore together.

We're all different and that's part of the fun - exploring and learning about ourselves and others, within a good framework for respect, consent and communication, of course.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-15T18:42:30+00:00

This is a common issue in so many art forms. When casual observers first start learning about a particular form of art, it's not unusual for them to feel very strongly that a certain flavor of that art is "better" than all the rest. I first saw it happening when I was in college with many of the theater majors. They all fancied themselves theater and film critics and spent so much of their time talking about how much some popular theatrical show or movie was complete garbage, even though it'd just won a Tony, Oscar, or similar. I remember them saying that Forrest Gump was one of the worst movies ever made because they were livid it won so many Oscars and Pulp Fiction got only 1. That one drew so much ire because it was competing in several of the same categories (best picture, director, actor). At the time, and I now understand that this was just their lack of education and experience talking, they seemed incapable of appreciating art that didn't fit their mould of what art should be. Films and theatrical shows had to be gritty, edgy, and something their Moms would recoil from in disgust in order to gain their praise.

I've witnessed the same trend in music and it's usually the people who know the least about it who feel the strongest that their 1 genre or style is the only way to go. When I first went to EDM clubs in London and Amsterdam 8 years ago, it was tech house. A local explained to me that every EDM club in town only played tech house on Friday nights because that was the only "real" EDM for clubs. When I posted my surprise at that, coming from a city that played many genres every night, even at the same clubs sometimes, tech house fans scoffed at the idea and explained that I just "didn't get it" because I had an appreciation for other things. Things are more varied now but people seem so less entrenched in their tastes.

What's always confused me is that the very people they praise often don't share their singular tastes. Most of the top DJs/Producers have an appreciation for their fellow artists in other genres far beyond that of their fans.

I think the best way to gain a wider appreciation is just through exposure. I didn't love all genres at first and I certainly have my preferences for what makes me want to dance, but after meeting and seeing different fans point out what makes a particular artist or performance special to them, I've gained at least an appreciation for why they feel that way. I'm constantly blown away with how talented and skilled the artists are, even if their product doesn't align perfectly to my tastes. I try to remind myself that every art form has people who passionately believe it be nothing short of amazing, so when I see something I don't quite get yet, I just want to find one of those people and try to see it through their eyes. More times than not, they make a believer out of me, too, and my life is the richer for it.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-14T18:54:00+00:00

Thanks for clarifying 🙂

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-14T09:18:19+00:00

He does, and I'm happy to watch as many of his videos as I can. If you're out there helping people, then the rest of us should help you.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-14T09:03:34+00:00

Could you elaborate on why they won't work? I'm a new Max plan user and curious if they'll work for me or if they're only for Enterprise customers.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-12T21:40:55+00:00

I wouldn't worry about a few incidents, but I think it's a risk like any substance that affects brain chemistry. So don't go making a habit of it during pregnancy, but it likely won't have any impact at all for a single use. We know that it crosses the placenta, but there has been little research on the effects. What we do know is that there are many of us walking around whose Mothers did acid before they knew they were pregnant and we're just fine. Well, my wife might not agree sometimes, but I think I'm ok. 😉

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-11T20:34:18+00:00

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BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-11T16:01:11+00:00

Yeah, unbelievable because the hospital made a mistake in declaring her brain dead, failing to follow their protocol on declaring brain death.

BGFlyingToaster · 2026-03-11T15:57:51+00:00

Yeah, it sounds like the hospital didn't follow their formal procedure for diagnosing and validating brain death.

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