What’s the negative here that makes this an addiction and not just good?
- Working later because of addictive loops.
- Wasting time and money building stuff nobody will ever use.
- Abusive screen time.
- Loss of deep understanding of a code base and over-reliance on the AI, with reduced incident or bug response time.
- Producing a lot of sloppy code, too much to be owned or reviewed.
- Mental fatigue.
It's MMO all over again. And I'm not complaining, but I want to raise awareness for me and other that maybe this isn't such an innocent activity as we think. Coding with agents might just be too addictive for some.