I use "comment-driven development" by building out the skeleton manually, writing comments instead of code, and letting the agent fill the code in (and then repeat, until done). It is a "lower level" of AI usage, compared say to full-vibe mode, spec-driven development, whatever. But I feel that it's even easier to stay in the flow, because I do not get bored by boilerplate or mundane implementation details.

"Higher levels" of AI usage are exhausting and flow-free endeavours.

This sounds good except when you need to cross multiple files. I feel like a significant part of the value of AI is that it can just find things instantly instead of me having to navigate some menu or enter any commands. At least in my experience changing 1 thing requires traversing a large slice.

I guess to take it a step further you could just write everything in a single file with enough context to let the LLM figure out location but this is quite literally just a prompt.