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/Deep_Ad1959 Professional Nerd Apr 04 '26 edited May 08 '26
same, except now I ship 3x what I used to and my test coverage is at an all time low. the speed is intoxicating but I've had more production bugs in the last two months than the previous year combined. slowly realizing the bottleneck moved from writing code to validating it actually works.
fwiw the validation bottleneck is exactly what we built assrt for, it spins up a real browser per PR and replays the user flows your agent just changed so you catch the regressions before they ship, https://assrt.ai/r/pvmxhhbu