The latest articles on DEV Community by Sergei Gordeichuk (@gosen). https://dev.to/gosen https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3763893%2F500c3183-600b-4dbe-b9a4-a7e7e9499671.jpg https://dev.to/gosen en Sergei Gordeichuk Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:16:48 +0000 https://dev.to/gosen/do-you-get-dopamine-kicks-when-claude-code-codex-does-good-job-2a23 https://dev.to/gosen/do-you-get-dopamine-kicks-when-claude-code-codex-does-good-job-2a23 <p>I actually do, and it happens quite often. I can even feel addicted to it sometimes.</p> <p>A little bit about myself: I'm engineering software for ~16 years, and I LOVE it. I literally love everything about it - architecture, plan, coding itself, deployment, debugging, testing, talking to users, building interfaces, all of it. I mostly work with web, but I worked in different areas - TV broadcasting, ads, Wi-Fi chipsets, fitness machines, banking, etc. So I know what it feels like to get a dopamine kick when I "finally resolved that bug!" which I've been working on for days. I've been having that feeling since age 14 when I wrote my first code in QBasic.</p> <p>And I feel like these days I can get the same fun, but faster. Because my dev environment with agents, virtualisation, and cool workflows helps me to architect and engineer rather then just code. That means I get dopamine shots way more often. It's like tiktok (which I hate) over long youtube videos. Of course, I iterate, make things better and better, but this initial dose, when the AI agent implemented things exactly the way I wanted it - it's amazing. </p> <p>Do you get those? Shall we already gather a group of anonymous ClaudeCode-addicted people? </p> <p>An "obvious" disclaimer: any analogy to drugs is to explain my idea, drugs are awful and everybody should avoid them.</p> programming ai webdev discuss