flow state

Like many, I’m spending most of my working hours these days in some kind of session with Claude Code, in a back-and-forth flow state that is almost hypnotic. It’s not quite conversational, it’s not quite task mastering, it’s something that sits in between. Search-adjacent conversations with Claude or ChatGPT will quickly find their natural end state (despite the engagement harvesting “want me to __?” questions); the early small context one-shot feature iterations of services like Vercel’s v0 were dead end discussions, with a touch of memory-killing Memento. But goal-based conversations (where goal == implementing a feature) with Claude Code have a shape to them that feels like something new, and have a pace that lets you ride them like a gentle wave. They’re slow-ish, they’re deliberate-ish, they’re deep-ish… For me, this feeling has been amplified by becoming a dedicated user of Jesse Vincent’s superpowers skills pack: brainstorm, answer questions, fire up a visual companion,…