“When [I first got] hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much… Quite a few of the tools I built I felt really great about, just to realize that I did not actually use them or they did not end up working as I thought they would.”
https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/
fast.ai - Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow