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cancel @cancel@merveilles.town

7/19/2025, 9:13:44 PM

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Over a year ago, I posited that AI coding stuff isn't about coding or productivity. It's about some % of people who feel a stimulus-reward thing from using it, similar to how some people feel when gambling. It feels so overwhelmingly good to some % of people they don't even bother to measure if their AI stuff is actually doing anything useful, because of course it must be, because the feeling is so strong.

It seems more & more people are also finding this idea lately.

But I've also realized that it seems to apply to any of the prompt-style AI things, not just coding. There is some kind of slot machine playing mania (sorta, not exactly) thing it triggers in some % of people. I'm certain of it now.

If anything, it makes me feel a bit less angry and more sad towards the people with this AI prompt-query compulsion. It feels closer to when you see someone with a gambling addiction stuck at a gambling machine.

rainynight65 @rainynight65@mastodon.social

7/20/2025, 8:50:41 PM

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@cancel I think this is why these tools are designed to give you an answer, no matter what.

They'll tell you something is possible when it isn't. They'll give you *some* solution to your problem, no matter how half-baked or incomplete.

What they won't do is say 'I do not know', or 'no, this is not possible', or 'I can't do that without more information'.

They're designed to trigger an addictive response, because their makers want people to depend on them.

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