ClaudeCodeholic

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October 18, 2025

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October 18, 2025

Hi, I’m Dylan, and I’m a ClaudeCodeholic.

I’m not addicted because Claude Code makes me more productive. I’m addicted because it dulls the pain of thinking and makes development a never ending bet of “if I change the prompt just one more time, it’ll finally get it right.”

I don’t care about those studies comparing how much better or worse people do with AI coding tools. I’d still use it, even if I was 50% less productive.

It might take twice as long to finish what I’m trying to build. Maybe I never finish it at all. But I feel I’m making progress. Most importantly, I hardly need to be there.

Companies worship productivity. I worship comfort. And Claude Code is my warm bed on a cold night of winter.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a prompt to finish, before I can continue doomscrolling on reddit.

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BibTeX citation:
@online{castillo2025,
  author = {Castillo, Dylan},
  title = {ClaudeCodeholic},
  date = {2025-10-18},
  url = {https://dylancastillo.co/posts/claudecodeholic.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Castillo, Dylan. 2025. “ClaudeCodeholic.” October 18, 2025. https://dylancastillo.co/posts/claudecodeholic.html.