Julien Danjou 3/10/2026

The Flow Is Gone

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The author explores the trade-off between deep, immersive 'flow state' programming and the fragmented, high-context-switch workflow enabled by AI coding assistants. While using tools like Claude Code in parallel terminals massively increases output, it replaces the deep architectural understanding of traditional coding with a managerial, decision-point style of work, leading to different types of bugs and a lost sense of immersion.

The Flow Is Gone

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