Yessss. I feel this. On the productivity side I banned Reddit and gave myself 15 min of HN a day, that helped with not getting waylaid.

On the pleasure side, I can get close to the same feeling with a design and review cycle going while Claude checks in, but its not as fun. Using an inline code assistant for the “interesting” parts while Claude does all the boring scaffolding.

I think of it like any industrialization process - being a cabinet maker was meditative - overseeing ikea flatpak cnc is not.