AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow

teo_zero

> nobody can tell from reading my code whether I wrote it in Vim You mean, except for the spurious :w here and there...

orng

I agree with most of the points on the article although it doesn't really have much to do with vim (which the author acknowledges). I too have often compared AI usage to vim in the past months: AI enthusiasts seem to spend most of their time tweaking their setup; creating custom agents, skills, mcp servers, writing custom tools for their agent to use, customizing their harnesses, loops and whatnot. Similar to how us vim users keep updating/rewriting our config. It makes you feel productive while you really aren't and while in the end it might help you better stay within the flow the author talks about it the article the gains are typically very minimal if one is honest with oneself.