I've been experimenting a lot with AI-assisted development lately and noticed a strange pattern.
The feedback loop becomes extremely fast: prompt → result → tweak → repeat.
That speed creates a kind of variable reward system where near-misses keep you iterating longer than planned. I also started noticing things like thinking about prompts late at night or waking up early wanting to try "just one more idea".
This post is an attempt to describe some of the psychological effects behind that experience.
Curious if other developers noticed similar patterns when using LLM coding tools.
The feedback loop becomes extremely fast: prompt → result → tweak → repeat.
That speed creates a kind of variable reward system where near-misses keep you iterating longer than planned. I also started noticing things like thinking about prompts late at night or waking up early wanting to try "just one more idea".
This post is an attempt to describe some of the psychological effects behind that experience.
Curious if other developers noticed similar patterns when using LLM coding tools.