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AI users question progress amid repetitive agent experimentation

Users on the ClaudeAI subreddit are discussing a feeling of being on an "AI hamster wheel," where experimentation with AI agents leads to repetitive prompt engineering and a sense of busywork rather than genuine progress. Participants question how to distinguish between meaningful advancement and time-consuming, unproductive tasks in their AI interactions. AI

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AI users question progress amid repetitive agent experimentation

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/notthatinterestedyet ·

    Does anyone else feel like they’re on an AI hamster wheel?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The obsession comes and goes, but this latest bout of agent experimentation has me zealously copying and pasting prompts, and I'm not that impressed. With myself!<br /> I want to believe I'm building something and learning. I always <em>feel</em>…