Mods feel free to delete if too much off topic. Always been a bit prone to addiciton, but this is something else. A bit disappointed in myself that I’m falling for the AI slot machine (or slop machine?), thinking “just this one more prompt and it’ll be there”. It feels a bit like Civilization IV back in the day, where there was also “just one more turn” that ate my night’s sleep. Whelp, today it’s this distant vision of the ultimate app that keeps me from sleeping. The funny thing is, as model capabilities grow, the scope of the ideas grows with it. I remember spending days some 18 months back, trying to cobble together a local transcription UI by copy pasting single files into VS code. Today that would actually be buildable quite easily in an afternoon with CC. But instead of realizing that idea that seemed so cool back then, I replace it with another idea that can’t be done in a session alone so the dopamine keeps flowing and I run around with my laptop in my bag, running ‘caffeinate’ to have the agents working all the time. Maybe AI addiction will become a thing just like social media addiction and the potential gains it actually does produce are erased on a societal level by the hordes of slop-machine addicts like myself. Would be interesting if anyone als sees this too and what you do to keep the endless loops at bay (I guess “learn to actually code” will come up as top answer). submitted by /u/Mr_Moonsilver
Originally posted by u/Mr_Moonsilver on r/ClaudeCode
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