It's the gacha of software development. We've got periodically resetting timers. Prompting is like booster packs: we have a finite number of dice rolls before the timer resets. We might even get a Legendary Ultra Rare pull whenever Claude happens to be feeling extra motivated. Before you even know what's happening, it's hijacked the brain's reward circuits to the point you're waking up at 3 AM because that's when the timer resets. Gotta saturate those timers with pulls and minmax everything in sight.

At least it's doing something productive instead of just sinking money into literal gambling simulators. Mercifully, unlike video games, automation is not "cheating".