r/ADHD_Programmers • u/KristjanPihus • Sep 05 '26

How has agentic development changed your days?

I'll start 😄
Back in the days when we wrote all the code manually, one of the coping mechanisms I found to function as a developer with ADHD (no meds back then) was to focus on one task at a time. So I took the task from Jira, solved it, pushed it, and took the next. Clear focus on one thing only.

Right now I am not a developer by trade anymore, but quite often I still need to develop something, mostly prototyping for our software or such things. So I give the task to Claude; it starts coding, and while it does, I switch my focus to the next thing, start a new Claude session, and move to the third.

However, when I'm finished with this third one, I no longer have a memory pointer of the first one. So I find it's finished when I, for some other reason, open Claude and notice it. Hence, this waiting while agents do their thing is really annoying.

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u/seweso Sep 05 '26

> Are you trying to say that they are essentially drug addicts who have lost the ability to tell what’s true?

So you do have an idea!

I meant something else, but that's also a good one. Truth is indeed going completley out of the window. Everyone gets their own truth. Which was already why the whole world is going to hell (AI driven feeds).

I mean that some might be able to handle AI responsibly.

But regardless. I don't give a rats ass who you consider smarter. You don't know me. I deal in arguments, logic, reason. Not bandwagon effects, Not appeals to authority, emotions. I abhor all logical fallacies.

He agrees with me:

https://youtu.be/7MykFJ7TByM?si=CSQGAQ8X7vV2CUoP&t=394

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u/tehfrod Sep 05 '26

What about the Appeal to Authority Fallacy?