Coder writes more code in one year with AI than the previous decade — but misses the flow state
dotey · x · 2026-10-17
A relatable dev reflection: before AI, writing code by hand with only autocomplete made deep flow easy — sit down and a whole day vanishes into a few thousand lines. Now with AI, attention drifts after dispatching a task, and switching back means reloading context at high cost. Yet the punchline: this year he wrote more code than his entire previous decade combined — he just hasn't had a lost-track-of-time day in a long while.
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