> the actual thing to measure it to keep a developer in flow state.
Personally, I find flow state hard to achieve when I constantly have to switch modes to debugging LLM output or an edit error that I missed.
When the majority of time is spent waiting for the main LLM to think, I will always wait a few extra seconds for a better edit than risk having to spend multiple cycles playing find-the-bug because something didn't get applied correctly somewhere.
Personally, I find flow state hard to achieve when I constantly have to switch modes to debugging LLM output or an edit error that I missed.
When the majority of time is spent waiting for the main LLM to think, I will always wait a few extra seconds for a better edit than risk having to spend multiple cycles playing find-the-bug because something didn't get applied correctly somewhere.