Developer ditches 'deep work': with agents, juggling 100 problems beats flow state
zack_overflow · x · 2026-10-29
- Developer zackoverflow says he's over "deep work" and flow state, calling it cope for a pre-agent world bottlenecked by human distraction.
- He now finds it more fulfilling to work on 100 problems at once, fully exploring the search space and getting closer to the truth than ever.
- The implication: agents have made parallel exploration cheap enough for individuals, upending the traditional focus-first work paradigm.
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