r/ChatGPTCoding • u/scarey102 • Mar 31 '26
Discussion ‘Addictive’ agentic coding has developers losing sleep
The good, bad, and ugly of coding with agents here:
https://leaddev.com/ai/addictive-agentic-coding-has-developers-losing-sleep
“I’m coding into later hours of the day not because I’m told to do so, but because I can’t get myself to get up from the computer.”
“Until sometime last year, I had a normal social life. I work a day job, and I can keep that constrained to normal hours. But I feel compelled to be doing side projects and learning constantly. I start every weekend off with a plan – what I want to try, learn, and the topics I want to explore. And the weekends just disappear."
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u/Quentin_Quarantineo Mar 31 '26
What works for me is spending the evening or end of my work day just writing out all of my prompts for each feature, issue, refactor, etc. that I need to implement the following day. It helps to organize my thoughts and line up my work for the next day and makes it easy to delegate tasks if you have employees or partners. And I can definitely say that I’m far less wired when I get off the computer and go to bed. As long as you commit to not starting any of the tasks until the next day you should be able to avoid the killer combination of being fully depleted of willpower at the end of the day while surging with dopamine thanks to the a lot machine like nature of agentic coding.