Ask HN: How to break Claude Code addiction?

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If this issue has affected you in any way, I would be really thankful to you if you could leave a comment on this post.MY GOAL: to be able to consistently do an acceptable day's work as a professional software engineer, keeping a reasonably good understanding of the parts of the code that I changed that day, ending the day roughly on time, feeling like I did enough, feeling like I can forget about work until the next workday.MY PROBLEM: I find that as the workday goes on and time runs out, my style of programming gets further from LLM-assisted coding (me designing and writing code, talking to Claude Code only when I get stuck) and closer to pure vibe-coding (where I don't even review the code it writes until a big chunk has built up at which point I'm likely to abandon it, unless it's really useful in which case I'll...

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