Vibe Coding Casino: Rise of programming by slot machine

"An ever-growing drive towards exploiting gambling instincts is being employed by AI coding agents and the companies developing them. The addictive nature of low-effort to high-output environment of LLM interfaces is being actively monetized, and incentives are once again stacked against you."

I decided to write about my experiences and observations about one of the less-discussed aspects of vibe coding: Its direct relationship to gambling, and how it's being marketed to inflate the AI hype cycle to the MOON!

I tried to be a little bit inflammatory, but please consider it seriously. Our relationship with AI agents is going to be an increasingly important one as they grow smarter. It's up to us to keep our instincts in check, and stay cool.

P.S. I would like to get in touch with people who think about this subject, are addicted to vibe coding and want to quit, and would like to provide more information/resources to substantiate this discussion, and expose the parties exploiting these addiction systems in the context of vibe coding.

You need to understand something about VC, tech, and finance people in general. They don't care about anything but making money. How do you make money? Sell shovels. Or better yet, monetize them. Rent and lease them out. Make shovels just well enough it breaks infrequently enough that people keep coming back to get another one.

That's vibe coding, and the last couple decades of "cloud mania". Computing was metered and rented. What they didn't have was the capability to bottle their developers up and sell that. Now, LLM's and the massive compute farms required to support them have given them that new shovel to sell. Which they will. Without regard for what it'll do to the environment that made it possible.