See, I’m with you, but in my day to day work I almost never could almost never get into a flow state while coding, because very little of my work involves creating things or solving real problems; it typically involves just trying to mentally untangle huge rat nests, Jenna-ing bug fixes and the occasional feature in, and then spending a bunch of time testing to make sure I didn’t break anything, no flow involved. I’ve been grudgingly using Cursor heavily for the past few weeks and it’s been helping make all of this significantly more bearable.

LLMs aren’t replacing the joy of coding for me, but they do seem to be helping me deal with the misery of being a professional coder.