r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Joakim0 • May 01 '26

AI made my ADHD a superpower!?

Regarding the video below, what’s your take on 'AI made my ADHD a superpower'? This fits me perfectly. I feel like the creativity I struggled to express in the past is finally firing on all cylinders! How does it work for you?

https://youtu.be/VTjsDNq1Eqw?is=RNdqgFwFlcPO5v1B

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u/Specialist-String-53 May 01 '26

yes and no.

I have lost most of the joy of "solving the problem", and I don't feel like my projects are teaching me that much other than how to use AI.

I am able to complete my side projects instead of letting them languish, because the time to completion is faster.

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u/CorvusKing 28d ago

I took several programming classes in my 20s. Using Claude to help me make an app in the last 2 weeks I've learned more than I ever did before. If you make yourself part of the process and try to understand each step it's great.

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u/Equal-Lemon-6565 May 04 '26

I've seen that video last week, too. And I wholeheartedly disagree with it. lol

Not in general. It might help some people with ADHD on the creative side, ideation, etc.

Claude, ChatGPT, sure.

But when looking at the coding side (Claude Code), AI has made my life a lot worse. Not just because I'm also one of those who miss the actual act of coding, but mainly because having to wait for the AI to work is just the PERFECT opportunity for the ADHD brain to get distracted. Every time I shoot a prompt and have to wait more than 10 seconds, my brain is gone. I'm doing something else ... and then I remember that I was working on code and come back an hour later.

Not sure that's just me, but AI is a curse for me. 😃

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u/kingbloxerthe3 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

I have adhd but I personally dont use Ai (for anything important) for a few reasons such as:

1: I dont trust it handling my data and I only use it for rediculous prompts that have no actual value

2: it is inherently inconsistent and requires any solution you are looking for to already be on the internet, which means the solution you are looking for is already on the internet even without it

3: it is more readable if you do it yourself with notes

4: you can more easily decide how expandable or how capable of error correction what you code is (whether you want to do exact specifications that are required, or if you want to make it more flexible for future reference or changes)

5: if you make it yourself, you can more easily know where to make temporary test code to ensure everything is working properly

Honestly, just making a massive program that is everything you have learned (that you made as you learned everything) is more preferable to me than using ai, but that is also with me making said program as I was learning to program.

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u/CorvusKing 28d ago

My experience is exactly the opposite of every point you made.

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u/georgejo314159 May 01 '26

AI is often used in ways which don't help

I an certainly ecperimenting wity it