> certainly not more than hiring people to do a job can be considered "gambling"

Actually it's quite possible that being a business manager/owner is actually addictive (having power over people), we just don't recognize it as such.

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stavros an hour ago | parent [-]

All gambling addiction is addiction, not all addiction is gambling.

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js8 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then you miss the point - AI use is being compared to gambling because it is addictive, partly due to same mechanism - the results (and rewards) are somewhat random, but it makes you feel as if you're completely in control of the outcome.

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stavros an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah, that hasn't been my experience. The outcome, for me, is extremely consistent. I ~never have to "reroll" by wiping work and doing it again.

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js8 an hour ago | parent [-]

Strange. I tell Claude Code to do things differently all the time.

	▲	stavros 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I'd recommend a different workflow, with extensive upfront planning. This works extremely well for me: https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/ It's to the point that I just push the output of that to production and know it'll be OK, except for very large changes where I'm unlikely to have specified everything at the required level of detail. Even then, things won't so much be wrong, as they'll just not be how I want them.

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cindyllm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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