I Can't Write Code. I Pay $200/Month for AI. My Life Is Now a Hardcore Game.

I used to play hardcore games every night after work. Permadeath. No saves. One mistake and everything's gone. I haven't touched a game in weeks. My actual life became the hardcore game. The Setup January 2025. I signed up for Claude Code at $200/month. I'm not an engineer. I can't write a single line of code. My only motivation was: "I want to make games." The first thing that happened wasn't game development. It was config addiction . Setting up the AI's development environment felt like a tycoon game. Change one setting, the AI behaves differently. Add a hook, it stops going rogue. Tweak the instructions file, it suddenly understands what you want. I was so deep in configuration that I burned through my daily tokens before doing any actual work. Classic optimization trap — I was min-maxing the wrong thing. But I couldn't stop. It felt like raising a Tamagotchi. Each small adjustment made the AI noticeably better. The Physical Damage My sitting time exploded. Even while the AI writes