Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?

Re:Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to... by igorzij on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:51PM (#48492847)

im finding it way way more "flowy" than pre-ai. all the boring trivia is gone, i can focus on what i actually care about - the shape of what i am building, tradeoffs, second- and third-order consequences of decisions.

the trick to get it uninterrupted is "selective multitasking". i don't like having too many Claudes / Codexes in parallel on auto-pilot; this way im finding i'm getting _something_ that is perfectly plausible, but rarely what i wanted. but I have N going at any given time, just enough to be basically non-stop reading. problems need to be related; within one project, ideally adjacent areas that are complementary. then my "flow" is just switching between reading and typing non-stop. never felt time flying by faster in my life, pure flow

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Re:Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to... by igorzij on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:54PM (#48492894)

also forgot to mention that 90% of the work (and time) is bouncing markdown files back and forth until the design is clear and I feel happy about it. design docs, working docs, etc. implementing then is where I can engage way less and switch to a different tab in cmux to drive it

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