&gt; For some people, the healthiest reward is the coding. For others, it&#x27;s working on solving a 300-year old math problem, or struggling for hours and days to find the perfect word for a line in a poem, or a sentence in a novel. There are no &quot;healthier&quot; rewards than those intellectual gymnastics.<p>More to the point, there <i>aren&#x27;t any other rewards</i> than dopamine. Dopamine is literally <i>what a reward is</i> in the brain. Unless you&#x27;re just never going to do anything rewarding, this is inescapable.<p>&gt; someone who may be suffering from what I can only really describe as coding addiction, the solution may be to find healthier rewards.<p>If your definition of addiction is dopaminergenic action, then you&#x27;re simply proposing another addiction here, because you&#x27;re just proposing a different dopaminergenic action besides coding here.