Agents are slow
Coding with agents definitely gives you more power. With a couple of sentences in natural language, you can create something that would take weeks. Yet I feel there is a fundamental flaw in this pr...

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Coding with agents definitely gives you more power. With a couple of sentences in natural language, you can create something that would take weeks. Yet I feel there is a fundamental flaw in this process: you need to wait too long for a result. Agents give you superpowers, but they destroy flow state. Before we start with agents, I must confess that I freak out when there is too much delay between me typing a key and a letter appearing in the editor. That's the kind of thing that distracts me, even if it's only milliseconds. I remember trying a lot of markdown editors a couple of years ago and rejecting them one by one because the character I typed was not there immediately. It was that distracting. I also use a Vim plugin in my IDE because it allows me to make small changes very fast: appending text at the beginning or end of the line (I, A), removing multiple lines with a single command (d + 11 + ↓), or selecting and substituting a block of text. And then there's the killer feature: t