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by giorgioz 51 days ago
Read the blog posts from Peter Steinberget blog steipete.me about his setup. Many AI builders converged on using the terminal with multiple panes. When a prompt is running if you don't have anything to do add another pane and start another prompt. Little by little you might have 1-6 prompts in parallel at some point. The flow state with AI is managing productively several prompts in parallel.
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This is multi-tasking and the opposite of "deep focus".
I find it works as focus when the tasks are all related/in the same repo. Not the same as single-task flow state of old style coding, but also still a kind of flow
It's interesting that the guy providing an actual answer gets downvoted, and everyone saying "it's impossible" got upvoted.
In my experience switching contexts breaks flow

I don't believe that multi tasking and flow can happen at the same time