HACKER Q&A
📣 gchamonlive

Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?


It's becoming an extremely dopaminergic work loop where I define roughly the scope of my task and meticulously explore and divide the problem space into smaller chunks, then iterating over them with the agent. Rinse and repeat.

Each execution prompt after a long planning session feels like opening a lootbox when I used to play Counter Strike.

It's really fun to code like that, it's like riding a bike after a lifetime of only knowing how to run. But I'm really wary that's addictive for me. Wonder if there are more people here that feel like this too.

  👤 functionmouse Accepted Answer ✓
> Each execution prompt after a long planning session feels like opening a lootbox when I used to play Counter Strike.

The "uncertain reward" nature of LLM usage makes it a skinner box, yes.

👤 loveparade
I've heard similar things from many people know, but I don't feel like this at all. I don't find coding with Claude any more or less addictive than without. I do find coding with claude slightly more fun, but mostly because brainstorming with someone/something feels less lonely than writing code alone. I wonder where the discrepancy comes from.

Seeing the final result of a feature doesn't really give me any dopamine. Maybe because I'm mostly working on projects I know how to do. When I give it a prompt I already know what the result should look like, so I'm not really surprised by anything it produces.

👤 yfw
I give less shits seeing how sloppy the quality bar is now
👤 avaer
Unironically, the descendant of Claude Code is the metaverse/holodeck/next minecraft.

It will look nothing like those things, but it will be obvious in retrospect.

For better and worse.