When I work with agents, I’m usually doing some version of this: set direction, trigger action, watch what happens, evaluate, intervene, adjust, try again. That reads lke a game loop rather than a single uninterrupted act of thought. There’s an ongoing cycle of action, feedback, and response. That feeling then is much closer, for me, to sports, or to video and board games, than to the usual idea of being ‘in the zone’ or deep work.
— Read on dehora.net/journal/2026/working-with-agents-doesnt-feel-like-flow