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Comment by ceejayoz | original | No AI Fridays
[−]ceejayoz · 2026-08-30 Sun 15:58 UTC · link
Eh, experiences will vary. For me, my zone is conducting things, not typing. Firing something off in twelve tabs and coming back later is precisely how my brain works.
[−]majormajor · 2026-08-30 Sun 16:22 UTC · link
> Firing something off in twelve tabs and coming back later

As someone who gets "in the zone" like the person you're replying to, I just don't get how this could possibly be the same thing. "Coming back later" doesn't make any sense when you're in that state. Stopping and waiting is a killer. You're just constantly doing things without necessarily consciously thinking about it.

Do you mean you're switching continually between the twelve sessions? Or literally "coming back" in a different sort of operating mode?

The closest thing to it for me using AI tools is specifically not running multiple "agents" but making targeted changes over and over and over but with a 10x+ increase in typing-vs-change ratio. (This also rules out things like Opus let alone Fable as they're just too slow and do too much at once.)