My company, like many others, is heavily pushing agentic dev tools, putting up token usage leaderboards, etc.

My problem is that corporate SWE work was already boring enough. You already had no say in the product or UX. This was compensated for by the ability to enter a fun "flow state" during implementation work, just working deeply on a problem for many hours and watching time slip by, having lots of schedule flexibility.

Now, with AI tools, this seems totally gone. All that's left is constant context switching while you manage multiple agents and wait for them to complete at nondeterministic times. That, and increased expectations because "AI increases productivity", AKA more stress and more meetings.

I have to say - AI tools have made solo and small group building 5x more fun... but it has made corporate dev work 5x less fun. All my favorite parts of the job are gone and all that's left is the stuff I hate.

Is anyone actually having FUN out there in a corporate dev role with these tools? Is anyone actually reaching that flow state? Because I certainly am not.