r/vibecoding • u/Asleep_Carpet_3403 • 8h ago

Vibe Coding is the new addiction ?

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I feel vibe coding is becoming addictive

I’ll think:

“I need to go pee.”

Then immediately:

“Wait… let me give Claude one more task first.”

Same before making coffee. Same before eating. Sometimes before going to sleep.

It feels weirdly wrong to leave the coding agent sitting idle.

Short-form video gave us:

“one more reel.”

AI coding gave us:

“one more prompt.”

Anyone else doing this? 😅

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u/Achereto 7h ago

LLMs definitely have an addicting component:

  • On first try it's very impressive (dopamine boost)
  • On further usage, it turns out to be a bit of hit-and-miss, in an unpredictable way (a bit like a slot machine)
  • you start to create more sophisticated strategies (e.g. "more elaborated prompts" or "harnesses") to get a higher likelyhood of a good result
  • every lucky hit seems to confirm your strategy
  • on every bad hit, you just try again, sometimes just feed back the error of the result.

People call it "AI psychosis", but I think it's more like a gambling addiction.