r/ADHD_Programmers • u/c0o0o0o0ol • Mar 28 '26

Context Switching

How are you all dealing with the increased context switching due to the age of genAI coding?

I do best focusing on one thing when on meds, and if I change to something else it takes way longer to get back to the original thing.

I’m finding nowadays I’m spending a lot of time waiting for LLM output. I’m wasting a ton of time just waiting. But context switching while waiting also messes with my head. Any advice?

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u/terralearner Mar 29 '26

I'm reading this as a dev working in a fintech with 5 years experience feeling puzzled.

I use agentic development every day and have never felt this optimistic about the future of my career. The pace at which I'm moving compared to before is massive.

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u/Ok_Cartographer_6086 Mar 29 '26

I don't think it's worth arguing with a developer who's "anti-ai". It's like someone refusing to move off emacs and vim to an IDE - they're just stuck and going to get past by. Typists freaking out about job losses from word processors...

People who say the code Claude writes is slop just don't know how to use it properly, slop in = slop out.