Ask HN: How much coffee do you drink as a programmer?

Easily 2 pots for me, probably average 6-7 cups.

Zero. Probably an outlier. It doesn't do me anything.

Used to drink 6-10 cups a day, even one at bedtime.

These days, it's one or two in the morning for breakfast. I find I work better if I am more relaxed than if I'm wide awake. All-niters are a thing that is gone decades ago.

Since quarantine and WFH I'm pretty sure I've been overdosing. Earlier this week I was feeling anxious, jittery, and dehydrated. Detoxed from caffeine Wed-Fri and today (Sat) feeling much better. Will ease back into 1 cup a day and drink more water.

A piece of advice: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.

I don't drink coffee, just water or tea sometimes :)

Not a lot. I'm not a huge coffee fan, I'll drink it if it's free and theres nothing else and occasionally I'll buy one, however.

About 3/4 of a large pot, so about 3 large coffees

Between 2 and 8 cups per day. Usually switch to tea or water later in the afternoon.

I drink around 7 to 8 times a day. People say it's bad, but who cares.. I'm just enjoying my coffee and a good smoke everyday.

I work from home, use an Aeropress, and drink between 4-6 cups of black coffee per day. Once it starts getting late I’ll sometimes throw in a cup of green tea.

Not currently working as a programmer, but I have worked as one in the past.

I only drink decaf, and I will have a cup a few times a week that I make as a pour over for myself. If I am feeling crazy, I will make two.

I am very sensitive to caffeine, and it impacts my sleep very negatively. I tried decreasing caffeinated coffee to half a cup early in the day (e.g., 8 or 9 am), and it didn't matter. I sleep much better when I don't drink caffeinated coffee (or any drink that has very much caffeine).

That said, my understanding is that decaf actually has a small amount of caffeine, but it does not seem to impact my sleep at all. I wonder if the amount of caffeine is actually that low in decaf.

Don’t forget for smokers that your body metabolises caffeine around twice as fast

I quit coffee as part of New Year's resolution. I started feeling nauseous in the morning if I drank a cup of coffee in the afternoon the day before.

Once I quit, I thought I'll be less productive, and that I won't be able to focus, but after a week or two, my body recovered from the caffeine addiction.

I started drinking black tea - two cups per day. It's still caffeine, but in far less amount.

I miss coffee, though. I miss its smell and taste and somehow I correlate coffee with work satisfaction, creativity, and being productive. It's probably because the coffee is marketed around work culture, and I bought that.

Two first thing in the very early morning, one after the other. Maybe one in the afternoon... Or a nap

2 capuccinos/lattes: breakfast & after lunch. I get more milk than coffee.

~10 cans of diet soda per day.

Regularly 2 cups a day. One after breakfast and another after lunch.

Once upon a time, I drank about 3 a day. Then I would start to get headaches after a month or two, and had to take a break from coffee.

Then I started drinking 2 cups a day. Now it took longer for the headaches to appear, but eventually they did. Especially if I didn't drink for a day, the next day headache would probably emerge.

Now I drink 1 cup a day. No headaches. And frankly, 1 is enough. It's the same problem with every form of indulgence - it's not about the quantity, but the quality.

Used to drink 2 cups a day. 1 after waking up and the next as soon as I reached the office. As coffee affects my sleep quite badly, moved to having only teas during the weekdays and enjoying the coffees at the weekend.

Now that I'm working remote & holed up in my apartment all the time, none. I got some of the DOOM Eternal branded G Fuel for the game launch, and it's strong (300 mg of caffeine per serving...and it's spicy lemonade, which sounds weird but it's delicious) so I have that on occasion in the morning to recover from a night of bad sleep. For the most part been staying away from the caffeine though and I've adjusted to it pretty well.

As soon as I get back in the office though, I'll probably be having 3-4 cups a day. Sometimes cold brew, mostly just black coffee. Occasionally I just do tea. Part of it I think is I just have a bit of an oral fixation, so drinking something helps me vape less (I used to smoke) and eat less (mostly sedentary lifestyle unfortunately)

2 espresso, one once awake, one after lunch

I don't drink any. I take power naps if needed.

3 cups espresso a day