Getting into Flow State with Agentic Coding
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#2Will this be the way of working for the next 10x engineers? Or will all of this be available for more inexperienced developers? Anything seems possible at this point.
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#3I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
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#4I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
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#5I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
Perhaps you don’t reach a flow state but why assume your experiences are the same as others?
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#6Just keep pulling the slot machine
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#7I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
I can't reach flow with agent coding because as soon as I set it running I flip over to something else and come back later.
I think this is a problem with the current agents, though. If it responded immediately with its ideas and code then I wouldn't flip away and could stay present.
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#8I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
Perhaps you don’t reach a flow state but why assume your experiences are the same as others?
It's a matter of definition, a flow state is hitting peak performance without attending to the details of your actions, fluidly and without delays, at a task that in any normal situation would be considered complex and difficult.
If you know the feeling from performance or from trance-like coding sessions, there's no mapping of that to the use of agents as described in this article. It's not that I don't achieve it, it's that using agents doesn't have the depth of technique or immediacy of reaction needed to be worthy of anyone reaching a proper flow state with it.
I feel like we've already corrupted the meaning of vibe now, do we have to corrupt the meaning of flow state too?
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#9I disagree that you can reach what I would call a flow state with such a degree of non-participation but I entirely agree that planning first makes execution better, for both humans and agents.
I can't reach flow with agent coding because as soon as I set it running I flip over to something else and come back later. I think this is a problem with the current agents, though. If it responded immediately with its ideas and code then I wouldn't flip away and could stay present.
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Perhaps you don’t reach a flow state but why assume your experiences are the same as others?
It's a matter of definition, a flow state is hitting peak performance without attending to the details of your actions, fluidly and without delays, at a task that in any normal situation would be considered complex and difficult. If you know the feeling from performance or from trance-like coding sessions, there's no mapping of that to the use of agents as described in this article. It's not that I don't achieve it,…
I know the feeling from hours long guitar jam sessions. I have definitely gotten there with some recent projects using Claude Code.