Vibe coding is addictive
And I mean that literally. 👇
LLMs — and the ability to build real projects with them in minutes — are a new kind of drug. For a very narrow audience: people who get a thrill from creating things and solving hard, interesting problems.
It used to be that catching that high from a solved problem required years of grinding at your craft. Slowly absorbing technologies. Wrestling with implementation details. Suffering through deployment.
The path itself was the barrier. Getting past it took an absurd amount of willpower.
But at least the high at the end felt “earned.” 🤤
Now that same high comes hundreds, even thousands of times faster, with incomparably less effort.
And it hits just as hard.
I’ve caught myself, more than once, unable to stop vibing. I can now, with ridiculous ease, build so many of the things I’d wanted to build for years.
So I sit on projects — work or personal — until my eyes physically start hurting. Until I start drifting off. Until I just pass out.
And I’m not alone. I see the exact same thing in my fellow developers.
We sit, we vibe, we get our fix.
This really is starting to look like a drug. And drugs always come with consequences — we just don’t know yet what they’ll be here.
Anyone else been losing sleep to this lately? 🫨