[toniantunovi]

The dopamine loop framing is spot-on. The "it compiles and the tests pass" feedback cycle is genuinely intoxicating, and it's very different from the slower, more uncertain feeling of writing careful code yourself.

What's interesting is that the same AI tools that create the loop can partially break it if you add a mandatory quality gate between "agent generates code" and "you merge it." The friction of seeing a linting/security report before you hit merge forces a moment of actual review that the vibe coding flow otherwise eliminates.