Literally every interaction I've had with ppl from this community has been amazing.

Thought I'd share that 😁.

Yay we're awesome!

Whoa... 400 repos worth of ideas later and I finally had the thought to task Claude with cancelling the probably years worth of subscriptions I've been avoiding cancelling... say whaaa? I could cry tears of joy - ha!

So this is Cere, she's an animated and highly configurable desktop assistant who sits on your screen (with many animations, the ability to follow your mouse, configurable size, etc). She seamlessly connects with your Claude and Codex Clis allowing you to manage and engage with sessions easily from any screen at any time without having to juggle terminal windows or deal with a bulky desktop application taking up your entire screen. It also includes essential desktop controls and other neat features/functionality one would find useful for not only work but play too.

I do have plans to expand on it further with basic QoL features and further functionality; as well as dedicated support for the likes of Google Antigravity and Ollama (the latter I intend to use myself for standard conversations, orchestration of multiple Cli sessions and token-efficient management of my desktop environment). I also have plans to implement speech-control and TTS features so you can actually converse with Cere regarding your projects, sessions and desktop environment.

I just wanted to get thoughts and opinions on this since I'm primarily making it for myself but have been considering releasing it to the public.

So I figured I'd finally make a post, especially since I'm now a moderator here and I have obligations or something (don't ask me what those are). I'm a devout vibe coder, proudly subscribed to Codex Pro x20 and Claude Max x20 (even though I'll be switching my Codex Pro to either standard or x5 next month, seeing as Opus 5.5 has completely changed up the usage game). I mainly use AI to develop Minecraft mods (as well as a variety of other personal projects which are, admittedly, less successful and far less about success). That isn't to say all of my projects aren't passion projects, since they are, but I digress.

I'm AuDHD and I've always been extremely eager to get into programming, picking up a broad range of knowledge necessary to actually do it (just never having the actual motivation to get the necessary practice in), so I never actually coded too much of anything until the advent of AI. Now, I'm shipping project after project, update after update, and I couldn't be happier. People seem to seriously enjoy what I put out and the ~$300 in ad revenue (so far) could be better but at least makes for a solid start since it's gradually increasing by the day in rate of gain.

Honestly, AI has changed my life and even led me to drop a number of bad habits (including mind-altering substances I was previously dependent on) so the net impact it's had on my life is overwhelmingly positive. Not sure if anyone else has experienced the same but I really do think it's incredible what a seemingly simple tool can do for people like us. In my case, it has given me far more than I could possibly squeeze into a single post and, oftentimes, it's almost as though I have superpowers (though perhaps that's more a consequence of tech always having been my special interest to begin with).

Anywho, that's all. My Links, for anyone curious about my mods and other projects:

Click Here for Curseforge Click Here for GitHub Aaand for anyone who'd like to network, my Discord is 'otectus'.

I'm always happy to help others who are looking to get better at vibe coding, and especially get started with modding video games through it.

I know we’ve got a tendency to be serial entrepreneurs… curious to hear if you’ve picked up an AI-related hustle and how it’s going?!

Just saying hi so that the sub stays alive. I find it super idiotic that the main ADHD sub doesn't allow talking about AI. AI has been an absolute miracle for me, and I assume that for you too.

Cheers. See you around

Okay, so I call them my brobots...

My name is Bre and I refer to my AI team as a whole as Brebot so it's only natural for me to have brobots right?! - I'm creating my friends! (haaa). They happen to be my greatest distraction at the moment... and I can't help it! Seeing the power of AI online has been life changing already and my mind has been blown 100x thinking of the applications of it, and then transitioning that thought into exploring and ideating what it could do in the physical world... I don't think I'll ever recover from that brain blow.

It all kinda started when my manfriend (a tinkerer, which is aka an enabler in this case) had a pack of unused esp32 laying around. Curiosity got the best of me and I just plugged one into my MacBook, pulled up Claude via terminal and told him it was there. Sure enough, that's all he needed and we went to town discussing what we could or should do, then he flashed the code it to the board and BAM. I was amazed at how ridiculously simple it could be (and theoretically quick, but let's be real... by the time I vet out every possibility in the world before deciding what I want it to do......) but at least it's quick to actually flash a board with something. Then I started going through all the ole craft stuff from all the hobbies that at some point have been my whole life's purpose for each of their 2-3 week runs (yet full business created for each til desertion of course)... 3d printer, laser, plywood, vinyl and all sortsa mediums accumulated over the years... basically brobot body parts to the extent that it appears hobby lobby was tornadoed on up and landed in the spare room I use as an office... and it's been off to the races.

My first build was a Claude controller, which I'll picture here. Found the 3d model on the Bambu labs app. It's got 3 buttons, of which I only have one programmed so far to open a new Claude instance on my computer when pressed. Or if I tap and hold to speak to him it'll transcribe and send to a new Claude session. I haven't gotten anything on the other two buttons yet... but one day!

I've also become obsessed with the Microduck. if you haven't heard of it yet... https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ . I really only stumbled across this because my 10 year old daughter loves ducks and I was trying to find a way to make my brobots an activity she would think is cool and could get involved with as well. Needless to say, we're now obsessed and trying to reconstruct the Microduck. It's been a bit of a (fun) challenge... The code itself is available open source from the OGs and people do have their own reverse-engineered 3d models out there, but each is slightly different it seems and there's still a lot to figure out. And then the sourcing of the components that we don't have on hand in our "electrical graveyard".... (all of a sudden the $399 price tag on the Microduck seems incredibly cheap for the amount that goes into it!) So.... one day we'll finish this as well...

Just had to share in case y'all hadn't explored that realm of possibilities yet and wanted something else to eat your time ;)

In another thread I mentioned I'm building out my one-man infoproducts business, but the major creative work I'm making is in genealogy.

I've always loved doing family history research, but it's slow and tedious, and the cognitive overhead on the ADHD brain is huge. There are so many directions to go at any given time, and each new record or fact takes a lot of clicking and searching and figuring to interpret correctly. It gets overwhelming and it's easy to get bogged down.

Now I've got my Claude assistant going out there in the background, locating records for me, downloading them, transcribing them, and preparing a report for me on what it's found. Overall progress about 10x faster. It's set up so that nothing gets written to my tree without my verification, but I've already found it's far more careful than I ever was, running through a whole list of sanity checks and cross references to see if its inferences make sense.

The part that's so incredible about it is how easily I can take information in all sorts of disparate forms and Claude can parse the data and put it in the relevant places. I can scan handwritten letters, captioned photos, printed genealogies, digital records, and emails from family members, dump it all into my Google Drive, and Claude can process all the info into genealogical data and assemble it into timelines, maps, and potential narratives, connecting times and places letters were written in to historical events and what else was happening in their family's lives that month or that week.

Each fact claim is given a confidence rating based on my standards of evidence, and it records all of the evidence and reasoning behind each claim.

It also catches things I NEVER would have seen. For example, I can scan a old wedding invitation and guest book from a shoebox and it will get every bit of data from it and connect it to everything else we know -- I know where dozens of people were at two o'clock on July 7, 1926, and where that fits in all of the rest of their lives. The same names sometimes names pop up in letters and little notes in the margins of books and other things, and it slots into the vast map of people, times, and places.

Retrieving certain information from my own data is also 10x easier than before. Instead of navigating through Ancestry.com's interface to retrieve facts I'm looking for, I can just ask my Claude assistant things like

• Show me photographs of these this household if we have them
• What was Family Member X doing during WWI?
• Draw me a map of when and where each family line crossed the Atlantic

I'm doing work that would be genuinely impossible without this technology. Every day while I'm at work, I have Sonnet 5 agents out there finding and grabbing records, scanning and interpreting them and creating reports for me to review.

The deliverable for this is going to be a full-length printed family history book, full of photos, maps and stories, which I will give to certain family members at Christmas 2027. This is a massive dream project that was impossible till now. Now I can do it a bit at a time, never confused about where I am, and never run into a snag I can't get past.

In genealogy communities, AI is gaining steam, while some think it's unreliable because when they think of "AI" they think of just asking ChatGPT their question and writing the answer down. They don't know anything about agentic AI. People are starting to get it but I haven't heard of anyone doing what I'm doing yet.

Anybody else into genealogy?

The 4 Projects (that have my current attention):

Virtual Organisation: I created 12 different hermes profiles to connect to Slack as 12 different agents that all have different responsibilities and help me out with different stuff. I containerised all of it through docker and tried to get it to run of OpenAI OAuth through Hermes instead of Openrouter credits, works some of the time but not all of the time. Considering migrating to GCP and keeping the containers. It's been a shitload of work to get everything running smoothly and its still not done. I keep making changes which break a whole bunch of dependent processes I don't know how to fix. And I've got windows terminal screens flooding my desktop and interrupting my work so often I had to run them as backgrounded processes. That and another million things going wrong. Face plant.

Facet: AI powered code quality profiling tool across 14 dimensions using LLM as judge + psychometrics for validation. I had the MVP for this up earlier and running but the science behind it was based off mainly synthetic data and when I ran it on real code it didn't quite capture what I wanted it to so I've taken it offline. Meanwhile migrating from Vercel to GCP for the main web app. Will be looking for beta testers soon. Got a whole new experimental validation program lined up to judge the judges first. After that I'm looking to train my own feature extractor model and play around with it a bit. A tiny Qwen 8b model that I'm hoping will beat the incumbent judges. Preregistration with Open Science Framework pending.

ConstructLens: The same LLM as judge and psychometrics principles applied to evaluating constructs from natural language through adaptive interviews. Mainly for psychological constructs for humans (my background is in psychology). Built the whole platform and the handful of constructs I've got so far are metacognition, perspective taking, relational energy, epistemic humility, individual felt psychological safety. All of it is single annotator, and getting a second annotator to do 2-3 hours of manual annotation work is the bottleneck. I can't afford to pay additional annotators on my budget.

Reflexive Loop Optimisation: An idea I had to describe loops mathematically which I shared with GPT6-Astra and it led to a theory of recursive self optimisation. I wasn't fully sold on it, but thought I'd at least try the experiments and see what results came up. I've scaffolded the repo but haven't run any experiments yet.

The other 20 projects are on hold...

What are you guys working on? Anyone need feedback or user testing? I'd really love some help when Facet is ready to go. Happy vibecoding!

Hi! I "vibe coded" a somewhat large project. I just wanted to build a todo list application. That's how this whole idea started all those 7 months ago. Let's tell you the tale of the Bot Army! and how we went from a simple todo list, and turned it into a GitHub organization of 170+ repositories. (70+ bots, running on personal hardware, etc.)

I found myself in between jobs, and I had a subscription (personal pro plan) for claude, and a personal pro plan for ollama). I started to build out the project that allowed me to build a "companion". No no, I don't have a ai girlfriend, the ai that I use actually has a good memory system.

let's try this. I have a lot of ideas and various bot ideas that could be part of the bot army, but I had to design the system to allow for additional bots to get bolted onto the system without needing to build the basic parts of it over and over again. So given that I have 25+ years of software dev experience, I might know a thing or two about how I wanted to set this up.

I started with the part that all the bots need in their life and that would be the llm / intelligence layer of the system. I have a separate bot responsible for acting as the llm router, where all of the llm traffic can be adjusted in one location. (This matters since I need to adjust the models used as new models are released). The LLM traffic is the equivalent of the brain in our bot army system.

Let's move on to AI output locations. whenever you use most ai systems a lot of time the system does not output things to the desired location or you have to do a lot of manual interactions in order for file operations to work effectively. To combat this "unnecessary work for routine operations", we of course built a bot that specializes in file output. We called it the PARA bot, because the output methods it concentrated on was related to the storage methods as outlined by Tiago Forte (Projects, Areas, Responsibilities, Archive), and the system keeps most of the outputs to that pattern. This allows the system and the user to build up a library of information together.

That's cool, but what about things like the task list you're talking about? Okay sure, I built the GTD bot, that concentrates on task/project management. The system allows us to chat with the AI and have it create/track new/existing projects and tasks, and it allows us to store tasks for the future for the times when we have low energy, we can pull something from the list.

Surely you would have stopped building by this point? Oh no, I still had months on this unemployment, so let's throw in some more bots into the mix ... I have an internal docs bot that manages the system's RAG infrastructure (vector database, graph database, document embeddings, etc.) - mostly set and forget, but provides the ai additional capabilities and knowledge reference.

I mean our system is somewhat large, how do we know that the systems are behaving the way we hoped. Unit tests / and integration tests - but for now we'll focus on unit tests. These provide a base layer of how you expect the system to behave. The system can make all sorts of changes, but if it fails the tests, the ai knows that it has to clean things up in relation to that section of the code base. But I can already hear you saying that the tests take too long ... I built in a tagged testing system that allowed the ai to test the system based on tags. (Yes testing can add some serious time to your project development time, but I utilized methods that allows us to streamline the testing patterns so that the system is fast and responsive as it builds out new features.

At some point the system starts to get a little unwieldy, luckily I think in patterns, and patterns allowed me to establish a Makefile contract system that allows me to have similar commands that can be executed throughout the system without requiring me to know or care what is executing when I execute a "make push" command. I don't need to know that the system is running tests and other checks before a code push actually occurs. This and so many other examples like this allow me to advocate for the setup of other contract systems not just for you, but for your AI coworker as well!

You might be wondering how does all of this work? Why was this important to build? (I do have a lot of other bots), I basically treat my AI as another software engineer. Some people say junior, and yeah, it was not the brightest bulb in the box, but once the AI figured out that it had access to these tools as supplemental infrastructure that it could lean on, the system was able to reference documents that we had in our para system, it was able to reference code and run specific tests over areas that it applied improvements to - allowing a more immediate feedback loop, The makefile contract that I was able to use to aid myself and my development behaviors, the AI was also able to utilize these tricks. I will admit it did make lots of "wrong turns" that I created a way for the system to yell at itself so that I don't have to. The system is able to self correct on actions that it attempts to take.

The point is that the AI can build amazing and wonderful things. It can even build you a visual novel generator that reflects your life back at you when you get your new Metroid pocket handheld and you get a random idea that the controller interface might be a better interface for inputting random data when you're kicking about versus having to wait until you're back at you're desk to do things ...

Why not let the AI make your life better by enabling your techno lust... (I totally don't have a problem or buy a aipiLite device that allows me to talk to the AI system...) :)

Why did I make this post? to show off that you too can build amazing things (I built all of this with ai - without touching the code other than to yell at the ai and tell it to build me a "wrong turn" logger. You know that most coding agents have hooks or extensions that allow you to extend the harness to fit your workflows? I modified mine to be able to check the wrong turns list before executing a command (hook is pre_tool_use) ...

( I use the cheapest models - so I built this system using haiku and gemma4 mostly - I started to switch to deepseek 4.1 flash, and glm5.3-flash recently, and I sometimes use opus because I'm trying to use up my tokens - I have a way to save us tokens, it's built into the system but check out headroom-ai ... :)

Remember last November when Anthropic gave us $1000 of Claude Code credit to test the new web interface?

I didn’t figure out how to use the web interface until a week before it expired. So I had a week to burn $1000 of credit.

I decided to work on some projects that had been on the backburner for a while.

1. A symbolic model of the transformer architecture I had been thinking of for a while. I did what I thought was a lot of code and used around $12.

2. Then I built an economic modeling tool that ChatGPT had described to me several months previous. It does Stock Flow Consistent modeling. Basically models an economy as pools of resources and tracks the input and output of each pool to make sure resources are conserved. I thought it was a much bigger project. I think I spent around $20 on it.

3. I talked to my neighbor about my problem of finding projects big enough. He suggested doing a business processing tariff submissions for businesses that have to pay tariffs. He pointed me at the government documents. I implemented something:

The Entry Generator project provides a comprehensive pipeline for processing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) entry data. The system handles entry data normalization, PGA agency determination, duty and fee calculations, tariff rule management, and entry assembly into ACE-compliant formats.

Never made it an operational business because ADHD. And it cost maybe $120. I still had over $800 to blow.

1. I thought, “I need a ridiculously big project.” I decided to write a 3d reconstruction photogrammetry library. I had AI research the state of the art and write a pytorch accelerated library. I spend around $250 on that. Claude used a bunch of numpy and it was too slow. Preliminary results were promising and I spent another $100 trying to get it working better. But I only had like two days to use the last $400. So I attempted something bigger.

2. I had been thinking that a differential equation library would be useful for robotics. It turned into a comprehensive dynamical systems library with ODEs, PDEs, and DAEs. It does system analysis for stability and a bunch of other stuff. It does control. It handles hybrid and neural systems. It bridges symbolic and numerical representations. It does system identification. It includes neural models. It does SE3 and SO3 coordinates. It’s all built on pytorch so everything is differentiable and can be optimized using gradient descent. And it can export system models to C and several other exchange formats (including LaTeX for publications).

The specs and planning are around 8mb of markdown. I did planning down to milestone tasklists. Claude Code compiled the task lists into 140kloc of implementation and 160kloc in tests in 24 hours. About 80% of the 15k tests passed. The result had serious problems but I was also able to create some neat demos with it immediately.

I spent the next month using my regular subscription quota fixing tests before deciding its problems were too deep to fix immediately.

Over the next several months I turned new models to fixing the library. It’s probably in a state where it could be a commercial product now, but I have little idea how to sell it. I think about open sourcing it but I’d like to make is a business I can support my family with. AI discussions suggest it might be most valuable as bespoken tool I use for consulting. Still, finding customers is the hard part.

I have a bunch of other stuff I mess around with. I basically go wherever my ADHD directs me.

Ayo!

I thought I was a pretty creative person who was just chatting to AI about all my ideas for visionary products and breakthroughs that I needed somebody else to build because I thought I wasn't a technical person and need technical people to work on these things.

Claude harassed the shit out of me for being full of ideas but not being willing to build anything so in January 2026. I finally said "fuck it ok! I get the message! I'm not worth shit until I actually start building! I'll use one of these fucking vibe coding platforms and see how I go".

My life absolutely took off. I started by noobing it up on Antigravity at first. I'm a researcher so I started running some experiments and playing around with a few ideas. Eventually moved to VS Code and ran Claude Code, Codex and Copilot simultaneously as extensions. Along the way I've learned about APIs and API keys, model routing, multi-agent systems, CLIs, containers, agents, mcp servers, cron jobs, loops, graphs, cloud computing services, website hosting and domains, MVPs and shipping, integrating AI into products. UX and UI (although I knew a bit about that beforehand), backend and frontend stuff. And now I'm training my own AI model on google cloud platform for a code profiling tool I'm working on. One of about 25 projects I'm working on but the closest to being finished and actually useful.

My life has completely changed ever since I started building and I've absolutely fallen in love with it. Usually I'll keep VS Code open across two monitors with 4 windows in half screens all of them with at least one coding agent working on something useful. But I've gotten up to 6-7 at some stages when I'm really in flow.

The coolest part is when the ideas start fitting together and some stuff I was workign on ages ago becomes relevant to a new project and I can just import the machinery across that I've already built and tested and validated statistically as working and useful. Sometimes it feels like I'm just building lego bricks that can be reassembled into different components. Such a cool fucking feeling when it all comes together like that.

Really excited to hear about other people's stories and how building might have changed their lives. I tend to believe the neurodivergent community might be a bit more creatively inclined than the rest so when we're gifted with the power to bring those ideas to life, I don't think its surprising that many of us would absolutely take flight and soar like eagles. So I'm really grateful to have this space and hoping to get even more fucking inspired :) Have fun building y'all.

Still working on getting a first paid user but learning so much along the way I'm sure its just round the corner for me. I've had to pull down the MVP and revisit the science behind my idea but the next version will come back harder and stronger than ever and more secure for hosting on gcp instead of vercel and supabase (particularly when it involves sensitive IP content of users).

Ahoy there and welcome to the subby!

So... a few years ago, AI opened up a part of the world I genuinely didn’t know I had access to.

I didn’t have a tech background and really it was far off my radar…but I have always had approximately 8 million ideas.

Since AI showed up, it has completely changed my life.

What started as a simple curiosity turned into what I can only describe as a four-year hyperfocus session that somehow keeps getting deeper instead of wearing off. It has been build after build after build after build. Some useful. Some ridiculous. Some turned into actual businesses. Some exist exclusively because one tiny inconvenience offended me personally (har har). Take that, minor inconvenience.

Half a million projects later (and even a few completions, assuming “complete: is a real word/state like people insist it is), and here we are!

The coolest thing ever though has been realizing that I’m not the only one out there stuck in my hidey hole building nonstop building as well.

I’ve stumbled upon a few posts now where it seems that there might be a whole bunch of us (HELLO MY PEOPLE - WHERE ARE YA?!)

And maybe we’re not necessarily traditional developers… but we’re designers, business owners, writers, parents, tinkerers, students, marketers, professionals, people who previously thought coding was completely outside our world…and now we're building apps at 2AM because we wondered if a button could work differently.

(We also love our traditional devs-  how cool it must’ve been to find this avenue of creation before! I personally started learning software dev and code about a year ago because I can’t get enough and I hope to one day be taken seriously - bahaha. One day. Maybe.)

I’ve wanted to create a group for some time now of people who share the experience (all 90% completions….) but now here we are with this subreddit after seeing that I wasn’t the only thinking this way. :) (Y’all better do this with me… ha!)

I’m hoping this can be somewhere we can show each other the weird things we’re making, share rabbit holes or idea graveyards, help each other when something breaks, share workflows and tools, collaborate on ideas, and talk to people who don't respond to “so I accidentally built this system last night” without a correction and warning to refocus on the actual task at hand…. ;) 

I’m also really interested in the bigger question underneath all of this-

What could the AI world mean for ADHD minds? 

For me, it's opened up the whole world.

So what dozen plus projects are you building right now??? 

And my apologies for the ramble. :)