AI coding assistants may help us produce more code, but they can also quietly change the way we experience the work itself. The constant prompt-wait-evaluate cycle can disrupt the deep focus that makes programming engaging, turning what looks like productive work into a series of subtle interruptions. The Prompt-Wait-Evaluate Loop: How AI Kills Flow Without You Noticing by Sandor Dargo From the article: A few months ago, I wrote about finding joy in programming in the age of AI .