--- title: The programmer that burned his computer (almost) | daily.dev description: A developer shares a personal story about getting addicted to vibe coding with Claude during the Christmas holidays, building an AI snake battle game using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-programmer-that-burned-his-computer-almost--yem26jtms twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The programmer that burned his computer (almost) | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares a personal story about getting addicted to vibe coding with Claude during the Christmas holidays, building an AI snake battle game using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-programmer-that-burned-his-computer-almost--yem26jtms og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YeM26jtmS.png og:image:alt: The programmer that burned his computer (almost) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The programmer that burned his computer (almost) **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares a personal story about getting addicted to vibe coding with Claude during the Christmas holidays, building an AI snake battle game using Deep Q-Networks written in pure Go. 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