An incremental game about the slow, irreversible slide from "I write code by hand" to "I mass-manage autonomous agents from my terminal at 3 AM."
Inspired by Steve Yegge's The Death of the Junior Developer and his eight levels of AI coding adoption. The premise: every developer is somewhere on this ladder, and the only direction is up.
The genre fits because the feeling is the same. An incremental clicker is pure dopamine engineering — numbers go up, you unlock the next thing, you watch your empire compound. That's exactly what it feels like to use AI coding tools. You start by writing a for loop by hand, and twenty minutes later you're watching an agent ship PRs while you touch grass. You can't go back. You don't want to. The numbers are too good.
Vibe coding isn't a game mechanic. It's a lifestyle.