[gopalv]

> More addictive than that is the unpredictability and randomness inherent to these tools. If you throw a problem at Claude, you can never tell what it will come up with. It could one-shot a difficult problem you’ve been stuck on for weeks, or it could make a huge mess. Just like a slot machine, you can never tell what might happen. That creates a strong urge to try using it for everything all the time.

That is the part of the post that stuck with me, because I've also picked up impossible challenges and tried to get Claude to dig me out of a mess without giving up from very vague instructions[1].

The effect feels like the Loss-Disguised-As-Win feeling of the video-games I used to work on at Zynga.

Sure it made a mistake, but it is right there, you could go again.

Pull the lever, doesn't matter if the kids have Karate at 8 AM.

[1] - https://github.com/t3rmin4t0r/magic-partitioning

[fud101]

> The effect feels like the Loss-Disguised-As-Win feeling of the video-games I used to work on at Zynga.

If you can write a blogpost for this i'd like to read it.

[thoughtpeddler]

This post (https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/) covers this well already.

> This sounds like the Loss Disguised as a Win concept from gambling addiction. Consider the hundreds of lines of code, all the apps being created: some of these are genuinely useful, but much of this code is too complex to maintain or modify in the future, and it often contains hidden bugs.