alt Hacker News> 2. It's annoying and disruptive to be interrupted when doing work that requires deep focus.
Steering a LLM also requires deep focus. Unless you want to end up on accidentally quadratic or have a CVE named after your project.
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coldtea • yesterday at 9:35 PM
Many people today just trust whatever shit comes out. Some even brag about it, even famous devs like Yegge.
And requiring review of the result is not a "flow state". Flow states means continuous and uninterrupted focus while actively performing, LLMs block and return with new code or questions for minutes on end. That's the opposite of flow, it's the "let's take a break now, see you in a few minutes" for every interaction.
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How can it? You prompt it, then wait minutes+ for it to come back. It's the opposite of flow state.