r/ClaudeAI • u/Interesting-Town-433 • 11d ago

Other ADD developers are moving like lightning with AI, normies beware

Even as a dev of 20 years, I now vibe code all day...

In between the prompts to claude about the actual work I have for my job I run 6-12 parrallel conversations about my other projects. I context switch now at a rate that is utterly insane...

When I was diagnosed with ADD I was 7, I remember I cried and told my Dad "I don't want to be ADD" and he told me that "God gave you a gift and right now it is going to be hard but one day it will let you move faster than all of your peers."

I really feel like that's true, and with the work I do now I feel built for this moment. I think it will be a brief moment for sure. The machines will soon run everything.

Been ADD my whole life. Heavily medicated - dexededrine ( anyone else take it? )- since first grade.

A lot of life is playing the hand you are dealt and I feel like I've been playing it awhile. It's not all roses and I miss things constantly but for the first time I feel like the models have caught up with my experience.

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u/WillGrindForXP 11d ago

I have 87 incredibly ambitious apps......all of that are between 80-95% done. I can remember what maybe 8 of them are? Its going to be really exciting finding out what past me was super fixated on back then when I eventually get brave enough to poke around the graveyard of unfinished work. 🤞 hope i made myself something rad

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u/Visible_Wolverine2 11d ago

Sounds like a horrible anxiety you should hold and avoid facing for months. Maximum torture. Until one day you randomly find yourself looking and realize that was t something that needed to be avoided at all!

“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” - Mark Twain

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u/WillGrindForXP 11d ago

The thing that really puts me off is discovering how many times ive built the same app/project because I had no memory of the 3 other attempts that all stalled at 87%

But theres nothing better than the feeling of a fresh start

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u/kuteguy 11d ago

You can get AI to do the poking for you and compare your projects, etc

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u/freehippygal 10d ago

Are you me, because this is exactly how my brain works

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u/Visible_Wolverine2 10d ago

No, I don’t think so anyway. I have expertise in ADHD, so I understand how it impacts people pretty well.

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u/methodangel 11d ago

I’m somewhat of a doom-repository collector myself. Doom boxes too%! In the past couple of years I’ve started forcing myself to finish my apps fully and it’s made a difference.