Monitoring Claude/Codex all day is frying my dopamine system, dev says
ethanCaballero · x · 2026-10-04
Developer swhotch describes how supervising Claude/Codex coding agents—constantly monitoring, prompting, and anticipating output—has wrecked his attention: he kills time waiting by doomscrolling far more than before, and asks peers how they cope with the dopamine drain of agent-assisted programming.
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