"Vibe Coding" Is Addictive: The Lure of the Variable Reward

Author: Shira Abel Category: Behavioral Science URL: https://hunterandbard.com/resources/blog/vibe-coding-is-addictive

Summary

AI was supposed to make us faster. Instead everyone building is working more hours than before. The mechanism is the same one Skinner used to turn pigeons into gamblers, and METR has the numbers showing it distorts what we think we accomplished.