Flow State vs Wait State. What Happens When AI Takes the Keyboard

AI makes us faster, but does it make coding fun?

Jim Bennett and Andrew Murphy talk about the trade-off: the flow state that made programming addictive - hours disappearing, code circling in your head. It doesn't really happen when you're prompting an AI and then waiting for output.

They'll chat about why AI coding feels more like supervising than creating, and whether losing the joy is quietly slowing adoption.

If you've ever caught yourself missing the way coding used to feel, this one's for you.

Come and join the chat if you have any thoughts or questions for Jim or Andrew.

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Jim is the world’s most energetic dev rel, and a Principal Developer Experience Engineer, focusing on enabling AI developers to be more productive by monitoring and evaluating LLMs and AI agents.

He is currently a Principal Developer Experience Engineer at ArizeAI.

Andrew spent 20+ years in tech, starting as a developer and working his way to CTO. Along the way he discovered that being great at code doesn't make you great at leading people, and nobody tells you that when they promote you.

Now he runs workshops for tech leaders, teaching the communication, trust-building and strategic thinking skills he had to learn through trial and error (heavy on the error side!) - https://andrewmurphy.io/workshops