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"textContent": "Developer Tao Bojlén noticed something uncomfortable about his days spent coding with Claude. After a long session, he didn't feel the pleasant tiredness of real work. \"Instead, this jittery craving for more,\" he wrote. \"It's the same unsatisfied hunger that I feel after doomscrolling.\" — Read the rest \n\nThe post Why coding with AI feels like pulling a slot machine lever for dopamine appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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