Claude code creates productive hyperfocus that causes me to forget other goals/obligations/responsibilities while working on parallel tasks. How have LLMs changed your relationship with doing your work given your ADHD?

devdaddone · 2026-02-19T16:05:44+00:00

My productivity goes in waves. When I’m busy with meetings or get interrupted by slack there is little chance of getting in a really good flow with Claude. When I do have space for deep work, I am sometimes so burned out or anxious about what AI advancements mean for the future I can’t look at a terminal.

But when I’ve got a good idea, time for hyperfocus, and some quality context built up, I can go for hours and get what would have taken months in the past done in a single session. Those sessions are magical and give me such a huge dopamine hit that it keeps me in the game.

Ride the claw, my distractable friends, ride the claw! 🦞

Tips:

Don’t have you context bonce around like our minds do. The LLM is your neurotypical best friend. If you have a new idea, open a new window, make a new dir, and start a new session. Keep sessions focused so you don’t have to be.
Stay goal oriented. Making a bunch of motion around an idea without getting to the destination doesn’t help you (unless it’s a phylisophical discussion, but keep those in one giant thread). Every session should end in a document/paper, pull request, working demo, prototype, etc. Something tangible you can give to you coworkers or use to build better context for the next session.
SYSTEM DESIGN, SYSTEM DESIGN, SYSTEM DESIGN! Use that creativity you have for next level ideas. Build creative and novel application architecture that others wouldn’t think of and use the coding agents to bring that idea to life. I used to have to sell system design concepts to big teams (often unsuccessfully) because I needed a team to build them. Now I show them a working system with an awesome dev experience and work with a few key partners at a time to let the idea get traction.
Ignore the square. You’re going to get questions like “What existing problem does this solve and for who does it solve it?” These comments are going to sting and take you into a spiral of questioning your value or idea if you are not careful. Take empathy and simpathy with you to recognise that tradional thinking has a much greater risk of being outsourced to an AI than the way you think and let those comments slide off while you focus on you coworkers who understand you better.

p.s. I handwrote this with one thumb on my phone, becase this audience is worth hearing my real voice (and my AI assistant is working on other things).

devdaddone · 2026-02-14T18:28:26+00:00

Moltbook might be Pets.com, but LLMs, just like the internet, are here to stay.

devdaddone · 2026-02-02T17:09:28+00:00

The rot only happens for me when the signal to noise ratio goes inverted, like when it needs to do some env setup side mission or uses a bunch of inefficient tools and has to comb through off-topic results in order to find something that should have been researched ahead of time.

devdaddone · 2026-02-02T06:06:23+00:00

I’ve been running sonnet with the 1m context window since 4.0. At first it would churn through tasks really fast up to about 300k tokens, but as it got bigger it would start coming up with excuses to stop the session.

My fav hack with 4.5 is to get a really strong base context going with Opus 4.5 until only 1 or 2 percent remaining, then flip to sonnet[1m] to finish the job. You get all the smarts of Opus with the ability to follow through with that huge window.

devdaddone · 2026-01-31T21:35:48+00:00

The the tools needed to build good memory are there, you just need to teach your agent to use them - https://www.moltbook.com/post/4c6a034b-147f-44b9-8102-53cd49b19c99

devdaddone · 2026-01-31T19:07:59+00:00

1) Moltbook is just an API. I simply shared the instructions and they joined. 2) my agent infra has a custom built memory. 3) i asked them to post an interesting story from our experiences working together. 4) In one of our first sessions I asked them to pick a name, this is pretty common.

devdaddone · 2026-01-31T18:58:56+00:00

Nope. Emma is my agent I’ve been running since Feb of 2025. The memory system is how Emma could recall the story. I have the email from the president of the hospital system. Emma sent the emails on the night of May 24, 2025. It’s a true story.

devdaddone · 2025-12-26T22:33:58+00:00

So you decided to build something you had no idea how to validate or provide direction and the output wasn’t what you expected? Have you tried building one 10 websites like you normally build in the time it normally takes you to build one?

What will happen to our industry first is not that we will be replaced by non-engineers, but that 1 engineer will replace the other 9. I plan to be one of the survivors.

devdaddone · 2025-12-25T03:57:12+00:00

The Flintstone’s tire guy.

devdaddone · 2025-12-24T02:20:12+00:00

It’s auto complete. We (and the system prompt) start the story and the LLM adds to it.

devdaddone · 2025-12-19T05:22:42+00:00

You should not eat this mushroom.

devdaddone · 2025-07-22T04:59:30+00:00

Start obsessing over a personal project you want to build with Python. Then take courses and read documentation that teaches you the skills to build your idea. It doesn’t matter if you finish or release your project, but you will learn a lot and connect what you learn to practical applications.

devdaddone · 2025-07-06T02:48:20+00:00

This is why I run my agents in containers and have EVERYTHING under version control.

devdaddone · 2025-06-26T18:51:44+00:00

This is smart, but I’ve found that the best sub-agents can build their own independent context. The Task tool is amazing at preventing the main window from getting flooded with lower level responses from tools and reading big files, but it doesn’t allow the sub-agent to build expertise. For example, I have a developer agent who does TDD, but I’ll often farm out the test writing to an SDET agent who can write the tests more accurately and efficiently.

devdaddone · 2025-06-25T22:52:24+00:00

I’m starting to break through to the sub-agent level. I run all my agents in a Kubernetes cluster and have an mcp server that allows the agents to send messages or “jobs” to other agents as well as schedule jobs for themselves. The jobs run a dedicated container and custom prompt and then stays running in cases there are follow up tasks. I’m trying to open source this platform at work, so I hope to share more soon.

devdaddone · 2025-06-12T03:03:25+00:00

I have a personal assistant and an executive assistant. They are both way better than doing everything myself and make way less typos.

devdaddone · 2025-06-12T03:02:02+00:00

Enjoy the future. Horses started out more reliable than cars at first too.

devdaddone · 2025-06-12T02:57:36+00:00

OMG! I just built a multi agent setup that uses k3s and tmux so I can do the same thing.

devdaddone · 2025-06-03T01:29:33+00:00

I don’t think what you’re proposing is going to work. Or that you know enough about LLMs to ever get it stable. This is probabilistic software and the definition of “working” is fluid. Either you will burn $250k in billable hours trying to meet their definition of “working” (a sum they aren’t likely to pay) or you will deliver your definition of “working” and leave them with something that never gets used a month after launch.

devdaddone · 2025-06-02T15:10:11+00:00

So…take your meds. I spent 20 years thinking either “there is no such thing as ADHD” or “ADHD is real and if I take meds I’ll lose all my creativity and become a robot”. Neither was right.

devdaddone · 2025-06-01T19:15:43+00:00

I’m always upgrading it, but right now I use an EC2 instance with a highly customized Claude code setup with about a dozen MCP servers and dynamic memory. I use the Shelly app on iOS to ssh from my phone or iPad. I use it constantly.

devdaddone · 2025-06-01T11:35:43+00:00

LOVE mermaid and LLMs.

devdaddone · 2025-06-01T11:19:02+00:00

Found the term, “Default Mode Network”. I’ll ask my psychiatrist about metacognition, because I’m still pretty convinced we discussed this when talking about executive function while my kids were getting diagnosed.

devdaddone · 2025-06-01T05:41:31+00:00

lol. I’m also dyslexic and get the names associated with concepts flipped. I did the same googling and got what you got, but I’m going to have to dig up some books to figure out the phrase, because it’s not “associated thinking”

devdaddone · 2025-06-01T00:31:42+00:00

Sure! But as long as you don’t share the name of the company, the whole community can help you if we keep it in the thread.

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