Especially if you’re burning tokens via API - then it’s indistinguishable from gambling

the only thing i've ever had an addiction towards was playing video games perhaps? and i can definitely recognize the trend here with vibe coding.

You are 100% right, vibe coding is giving that same feeling. I just don't like it. Every time I do it I feel like I'm bleeding money. Simple prompts are fine because the result is expectable, but bigger prompting projects give me this kind of anxiety...

All creative activities elicit feel good juices … it’s just that influencers have learned what we need making those if us who are ignorant or in denial of what we need (like validation) are easily manipulated by these influencers into doing things against our own interests.

Skinner box? 🦤

That is precisely what it is. Even regular programming was viewed the same way back at the beginning too. Programmers would write instructions and then spin the slots, i.e. run the program and hope for the best. Nothing has changed, really.

Now add weed to that and you're fucked

Dopamine prompting