Finding Flow in the AI Coding Era
Wattenberger · x · 2026-07-14
The author shares some thoughts on "what we lose when we no longer write code by hand". The core question is whether we can regain that state of deep, continuous focus for coding now that AI-assisted programming has become so prevalent.
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