When you're in the flow, you're addicted and everything else becomes second. It's just that lots of grunt work is the prerequisite for getting into a good flow.

When you're in the flow, you're addicted and everything else becomes second. It's just that lots of grunt work is the prerequisite for getting into a good flow. So the answer is that you can't get addicted to programming even if you wanted to but occasionally you will even if you didn't want to.