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Just One More Hit, I'll Stop After the Next Prompt

Building with AI has become the most potent cognitive drug available to founders, and if you run a neurodiverse brain—ADHD, dyslexic, autistic, any brain wired on a different dopamine economy—the compulsion is not metaphorical but pharmacological. AI tools deliver instant feedback, variable reward, and scalable challenge in an endless loop, exploiting the same reward-sensitivity that makes hyperfocus feel like flow but function like addiction. The rotation starts innocently: Manus for data, Lovable for builds, Claude for copy and design, GPT for research. Five tools, five parallel streams, no natural pauses. It looks like extraordinary productivity at 2 am, but the quality of decisions made under that cognitive load tells a different story. This is a piece about the loop, the crash signal that arrives days later, and why stopping has turned out to be harder than writing any prompt.