The addiction aspect of this is real. I was skeptical at first, but this past week I built three apps and experienced issues with stepping away or getting enough sleep. Eventually my discipline kicked in to make this a more healthy habit, but I was surprised by how compelling it is to turn ideas into working prototypes instantly. Ironically, the rate limits on my Claude and Codex subscriptions helped me to pace myself.

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logicprog an hour ago | parent [-]

Isn't struggling to get enough sleep or shower enough and so on because you're so involved with the process of, you know, programming, especially interactive, exploratory programming with an immediate feedback loop, kind of a known phenomenon for programmers since essentially the dawn of interactive computing?

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samename an hour ago | parent [-]

Using agents trigger different dopamine patterns, I'd compare it to a slot machine: did it execute it according to plan or did it make a fatal flaw? Also, multiple agents can run at once, which is a workflow for many developers. The work essentially doesn't come to a pausing point.

	▲	logicprog an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> did it execute it according to plan or did it [have] a fatal flaw? That's most code when you're still working on it, no? > Also, multiple agents can run at once, which is a workflow for many developers. The work essentially doesn't come to a pausing point. Yeah the agent swarm approach sounds unsurvivably stressful to me lol