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.

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.

> 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.

I got somewhat addicted to the planning phase to the point I started getting task paralysis because I was hell bent on creating the perfect plan.

Everything can be optimized, performance can be improved, you can always think of more edge cases and user stories to cover everything, but after a point that just becomes procrastination in the form of chasing perfection. It's also hell if you've got even the slightest bit of ADHD, rapidly leading to task paralysis with the sheer scale of the plan.

Now I sit with a notebook sketch out everything I am thinking about and then condense it to a planning prompt and then once the plan aligns with my representation of the task, I start implementing.

I give less shits seeing how sloppy the quality bar is now

I’ve always been addicted to coding and building, this just makes it easier to get my fix…

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.

The problem is Claude often kinda grinds to a halt. So I find myself getting context switching a LOT as I’m waiting for it to do something. I’m alright at context switching, but it’s really fucking tiring doing it so constantly.