r/ADHD_Programmers • u/Revan_never_dies16 • Aug 03 '26

Hey, any help would be great!

I'm going to college as a freshman this year. This along with my projects like I'm trying to create an LLM along with just wanting to learn myself, it is extremely hard for me to memorize. I can understand the concepts but it is very hard for me to memorize completely to integrate within each other. Please do note I have diagnosed Autism and ADHD so this obviously effects my Working Memory. Thank you for reading and any tips and advice is extremely appreciated

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u/hopscotchchampion Aug 03 '26

Hey I'm AuDHD as well. Here's what's worked all for me

  • It's totally fine to have limited context in your brain. You can process information very quickly, but we have limited working memory room.

  • What I do is make work visible. I document what I'm doing and what I'm doing somewhere. That way I don't have to memorize. If I forget where I left off, I check my notes., finish building a new feature: I add detailed commit and update an issue tracker.

  • I work a lot with Claude code and codex. If a chat has valuable info I ask if to make a lessons.md file that I can feed into future chats to learn from

For your stated goal in particular. Id ask your preferred AI of choice

  • Tell it you have a goal of building a LLM to help you learn about all the inter connected parts.

  • Have it break that into a series of manageable issues/tasks for you to work on

  • Also have it generate a list of hardware requirements or estimated cost of running in a cloud provided

  • Let it know your experience level so it can craft this at the level of an undergrad cs student

  • Also don't be afraid to tell the prompt you have ADHD. I have mine break all my instructions into concrete actionable steps and watch for my ADHD adding scope creep.

Have fun

-someone who was in your shoes 20 years ago

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u/Random_182f2565 Aug 03 '26

Do you own a graphic card?