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Vibe Coding Is Creating Braindead Coders
Confession: I’ve been using Claude Code to write all my code for me. And I think it’s making me worse at the thing I’ve loved doing for twelve years. I can clearly see how AI coding is rewiring our brains – it makes developers crave instant gratification instead of deep understanding, and reduces us to gamblers who pull levers for the next hit of working code. If this is happening to me, someone who learned to code in the pre-AI era, what’s it doing to junior developers who’ve never known anything else?
I spent weeks on this thing – scratching diagrams on every piece of paper I could find, bothering my math teachers until they avoided me, and even dreaming about algorithms on a few nights. Of course, debugging React state is the bottom of the totem pole for enjoyability, just slightly better trying to browse the internet on a slow connection with packet loss, so I (lazily) pasted the entire problem into Claude to let it do it. If you think about it, that 30-second wait for AI responses can be seen as a variable ratio schedule — Random rewards delivered at unpredictable intervals — the same psychological pattern that makes slot machines, social media, and mobile games addictive.
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