Steve Yegge, are you OK? You're bragging about a gambling addiction. > I can't bring myself to leave when my brutes are hungry. I've tried, it's a no-go. I ha

Steve Yegge, are you OK? You're bragging about a gambling addiction. > I can't bring myself to leave when my brutes are hungry. I've tried, it's a no-go. I have to run a practiced escape plan every night to get my computer closed by 2am. First I get them all spinning at once. Then I leap up, run out of the room, slam the door, jam my fingers in my ears, and sprint away shouting lalalala. > It's potent stuff. If you do attempt running six agents in separate workstreams, bring potable water and a couple of empty jugs. Technology has a concentrating effect. When tech makes a thing cheaper, easier, and more accessible, more can happen. Mostly this is good. Mostly a bunch of other newly possible stuff happens too. But with almost everything there's a point of concentration beyond which it switches over to being harmful. That point is different for everyone and even could be different for the same person on a different day. It's up to each of us to enforce our own boundaries. Not everything can be enforced by individuals refusing to play. Sometimes a thing needs to be enforced at a societal level. Consider why there are speed limits on roads. Cars can go really really fast, and people in a hurry hate being held up. By capping the speed everyone can go, there's less FOMO and less danger when driving. This stuff is easy to understand when the risk is bodily harm. Sadly humans struggle to see the same phenomenon when all it's doing is wrecking your sleep and downtime and getting in the way of doing literally anything else. So maybe, this will need to be enforced at a societal level. Australia already has "right to disconnect" laws, for example. But the risk of addiction doesn't stop at individuals. Further in comes the turn: Stevey's stopped pulling his agentic coding slot machine lever long enough to shill an obscure product which adds a layer of competition among your teammates. Now the casino gets a new jackpot board and FOMO because your teammates are better gamblers than you. > Amp is also more fun. It takes a different design approach, being intentionally team-centric. Amp gamifies your agentic development by making it public, with leaderboards and friendly competition, as well as liberal thread sharing. It all manages to be low-pressure and engaging. You can tell Steve doesn't believe his own words because he doesn't back up that final sentence at all, nor does he back up his statement with personal experience. Whatever Amp becomes in a team context, Steve only wrote enough about it to collect a paycheck. Make of that what you will. It is definitely not all bad. Despite being addictive, with good guardrails you can produce a lot high quality work. Just don't addict yourself to pulling that next item off the backlog, or trying one more time to feel that magic mind-reading vibe when the agent nails it. Rather, work your hours then go out and stare at the sun. Or get the code done as fast as possible and spend more time talking to customers so you can be sure the thing you're building really fast is actually the thing they need.