# Developers say agents make coding less satisfying than flow state

> Original title: Almost every dev who I asked “do you miss flow state (when coding)” told me they do and that with agents it’s different / not as satisfying

- Source: Gergely Orosz
- Published: 2026-10-30T00:34:18.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lv9fgp1ztjd66a02l5ma93vq4
- Original: https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/2115965483279331735

## Summary

Gergely Orosz says most developers he asked miss flow state while coding and find agent-based work less satisfying. The exception is developers building agentic systems that have no existing blueprints and must invent the approach themselves.

## Post

Almost every dev who I asked “do you miss flow state (when coding)” told me they do and that with agents it’s different / not as satisfying

EXCEPT devs who are currently building agentic systems that AI cannot & there are zero blueprints, they need to invent it all

Hmm

## Quoted post @trq212

> very weird thing happening rn
> 
> technical people are sad, they think their skills are now useless
> 
> non-technical people are desperately wishing they were more technical so they could use agents better

https://x.com/trq212/status/2115544056038350960