[aljarry]

This does seem like a person getting hooked on idle games, or mobile/online games with artificially limited progress (that you can pay to lift). It's a type of delayed gratification that makes you anxious to get next one.

Not everyone gets hooked on those, but I do. I've played a bunch of those long-winded idle games, and it looks like a slight addiction. I would get impatient that it takes so long to progress, and it would add anxiety to e.g. run this during breaks at work, or just before going to sleep. "Just one more click".

And to be perfectly honest, it seems like the artificial limits of Anthropic (5 hour session limits) dig into similar mechanism. I do less non-programming hobbies since I've got myself a subscription.

[sph]

I’d rather grind Runescape at this point, than become addicted at trying to automate away my job.