Prompxiety
The restless, obsessive anxiety felt by AI-era builders who use tools like Claude Code or ChatGPT to vibe-code products at superhuman speed — only to find that more power creates more pressure, not more peace.
The loop: first prompt hits like dopamine → 10× velocity → brain quietly rewrites the MVP into a billion-dollar startup → can't stop prompting → body restless, sleep gone, repeat.
The cruel irony: you built a machine to work for you, and ended up working harder than ever — chasing an outcome no machine can promise.
Prompt + Anxiety = Prompxiety
The loop: first prompt hits like dopamine → 10× velocity → brain quietly rewrites the MVP into a billion-dollar startup → can't stop prompting → body restless, sleep gone, repeat.
The cruel irony: you built a machine to work for you, and ended up working harder than ever — chasing an outcome no machine can promise.
Prompt + Anxiety = Prompxiety
"I've been prompting for 14 hours straight trying to ship before anyone copies my idea. My co-founder says I have Prompxiety and need to log off."
Prompxiety by Sanket Pratap Deora June 15, 2026
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