Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?

A developer on Hacker News reports losing their ability to maintain a flow state while coding with slow AI agents like Claude, a problem they never faced before using agentic coding tools. The user is asking the community for strategies to stay focused and work deeply when AI tools introduce delays into the programming workflow.

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