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> The effect feels like the Loss-Disguised-As-Win feeling of the video-games I used to work on at Zynga.

If you can write a blogpost for this i'd like to read it.



This post (https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/) covers this well already.

> This sounds like the Loss Disguised as a Win concept from gambling addiction. Consider the hundreds of lines of code, all the apps being created: some of these are genuinely useful, but much of this code is too complex to maintain or modify in the future, and it often contains hidden bugs.




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