Vibe coding addiction is a real thing.

You're the bottleneck.

If only you did a few more moments of input you could unlock hours of output.

Often waking up at 2am in a half dream state, thinking about it.

"Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a 'secret email list' of agentic AI coders, and they're starting to report trouble sleeping because agent swarms are 'like a vampire.'

'A lot of people who are in 'multiple agents mode,' they're napping during the day... It just really is draining.'

'This thing is like a vampire. It drains you out. You have trouble sleeping.'"

"I don't know why this week became the tipping point, but nearly every software engineer I've talked to is experiencing some degree of mental health crisis.

[...] Many people assuming I meant job loss anxiety but that's just one presentation. I'm seeing near-manic episodes triggered by watching software shift from scarce to abundant. Compulsive behaviors around agent usage. Dissociative awe at the temporal compression of change. It's not fear necessarily just the cognitive overload from living in an inflection point."