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I’d like to throw this out there to see what comes back; has anyone thought about coding and development being an addiction? In my experience, it has fit all o
by anonymouse008 5y ago
I’d like to throw this out there to see what comes back; has anyone thought about coding and development being an addiction?
In my experience, it has fit all of the characteristics of a deeply addictive loop… There’s a strong period of hard effort for variable reward - and much of the time that reward is just the dang thing compiling.
I know without a doubt I’ve hurt myself doing this more than I should and am currently struggling with the potential long term benefit vs. the current pains.
- mikepurvis 5y agoI would agree with this, but I think for me it's more of an undiagnosed ADHD thing, where I have periods of fabulous productivity where I'm up all night for days riding an endless wave of dopamine, and then other times where it's weeks of feeling stalled and unmotivated even when the next steps should be fairly clear.
- granshaw 5y agoBroadly I think society only considers “harmful” activities as addictive - drinking, porn, your usual If you can’t stop doing something that’s societally acceptable or even lauded, you’re just “passionate”
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- nunez 5y agoI think this viewpoint is really interesting, especially when one considers how massively incentivized this addiction is (by way of high-paying jobs with generally-great benefits and working environments).
- empthought 5y agoScience and the Compulsive Programmer (1976) https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/Pages/Hester_James/HACKER.htm https://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/Business/ComputerScience/P...