The real benefit of it is not mind blowing creative epiphanies, but breaking yourself free from unhelpful mental pathways. The change in chemistry temporarily g

The real benefit of it is not mind blowing creative epiphanies, but breaking yourself free from unhelpful mental pathways. The change in chemistry temporarily gets you to think in different ways, which is a big help for people who are stuck in negative ruts. I suppose that sort of thing also might lead to creative breakthroughs to brilliant people who have been stuck on problems for a long time, but lets face it -- while lots of developers are intelligent people, we aren't working at the edge of science. Deciding to throw in a Redis cache to speed up requests or something isn't a groundbreaking innovation.