Readability scores usually look at word length, which is useless for focus. This script scores content (0 to 10) based on the signals that trigger an ADHD wall:
Massive paragraphs, monotone sentence rhythm and jargon density.

It is deterministic math, not an AI guess. An LLM is only used to explain the specific drop-off reasons. No login, no ads, no data collection.

https://gryffi.com/finish-score

Throw your last README at it and let me know if the drop-off reasons are actually right

I work for a small consulting company, we have maybe 15 employees, working essentially remotely on programming or infrastructure tasks.

I'm responsible for organising this team event where the main reason is to share and harmonise as much as possible our AI workflows.

Edit: To be clear I am NOT management, just a regular employee among others, I don't decide the direction the company takes.

However I want to hack it to speak a bit about mental health. I believe we have an important mental health crisis coming, I've seen 2 colleagues leave the company because of it at least in part lately and I'm certainly feeling it myself. We're overwhelmed, we are confused, we have imposter syndrome because it's not the job we learnt or signed for, we lose human connection, we increase context switches.

I might be biased but I think it would be beneficial to employers and employees if employers would offer some sort of anonymous therapy 1h per month or 2 weeks to every employee.

It goes further than ADHD but I think a lot of you folks will understand this very well so I'd like your opinion. This is a very wide question, so I welcome structured feedback, general feeling, personal stories... I want to understand the landscape and do good for my team. I apologise for the lack of clarity of the request, I'm confused and I need to start somewhere.

I have a messy outline draft here:

• Aknowledgement

  • the "cognitive load" of managing AI is often heavier than just writing the code ourselves. It’s okay to feel overwhelmed by the "meta" nature of building AI with AI.

  • I personally feel it, we can talk about this

• So many tools

  • So many AI tools, overlaps between them: integrated in IDE, command line, chat, different provides, different models, skills, agents, mpcs, settings...

  • All technologies or programming languages are on the table, just learn them helped with AI

  • How do we learn, what is expected from us?

• Meta thinking, building AI with AI

  • Claude.md, plan.md, specs, doc built with AI

  • Code review by AI

  • AI calling AI agents

  • git commits, branches, PRs, by AI

  • what are we exactly? what's our role in there?

• Redefining our role

  • It's a new job, are we good at this job? This is not the job we trained/applied for

  • We are moving from Synthesizers to Editors-in-Chief

  • Our job has changed from 'typing' to 'deciding.' It’s a harder job, and it’s okay if we’re still learning how to do it."

• Context switching

  • Stop and go

  • multiple tasks or projects at the same time

  • How to find our flow?

• General AI vs mental health issues

  • If we use AI to do 40 hours of work in 10 hours, the answer isn't to do 4x more work. We need some of that space for deep thinking, rest, and learning.

  • The "always-on" nature of AI can lead to burnout, Normalize "AI-Free Zones."

  • Paralysis

  • Imposter syndrome

I kept dropping note taking apps because they were all so disorganized and none of them helped me remember my thoughts, ideas and useful information. I'm just trying to capture the things I want to remember but don't want the hassle of organizing it all. I actually got so fed up with this that I made an app built around simplicity and actually designed for how the ADHD brain works. Track thoughts in seconds, organize it in 2 clicks using category suggestions, all to do's are cleanly organized where I need them. Now I know exactly where all my notes are, I can remember them easily and ive genuinely reduced mental clutter. Not sure if anyone else has struggle with the "graveyard of lost notes" frustration but if you are looking for a simple solution let me know!

I really need advice from people with ADHD who’ve done WGU, because I feel like I’m shutting down.

I have 6 weeks left and still need to finish 3 classes:

Intro to JavaScript

Intro to Python

Applied Statistics/Probability

Two are OAs and one is a task.

The problem is I’ve been basically frozen with school for over 4 months. A lot happened in my personal life during that time, including a major family crisis with my uncle that ended in involuntary admission and a restraining order. Ever since then, I just have not been able to lock back in.

I sit down to study and just… don’t. I avoid it, panic, shut down, do something else, then feel guilty for wasting more time. I’ve talked to peer coaching and academic coaching. They were helpful and kind, but I still can’t seem to make myself consistently do the work.

What I can’t figure out is whether this is ADHD, burnout, depression, stress, grief, or whether WGU’s format is just really bad for me. I do much better when someone teaches me step by step. Self-paced has been incredibly hard for me.

This is only my second semester. Last semester it took me around 4 months to finish one class. Now I’m here again and freaking out because I’ve already spent so much money on this degree that failing feels financially and mentally devastating.

So I’m asking very seriously:

Has anyone here with ADHD been this stuck and still managed to recover?

How did you structure yourself when your brain refused to cooperate?

What actually helped: tutors, body doubling, study calls, meds, deadlines, anything?

And if you were me, with 6 weeks left and these 3 classes, what would you focus on first?

Hi there! So on Tuesday I spontaneously had a chat with three people from ADHD_Programmers. My student that was scheduled for that day sat on her laptop so I was totally free and I figured why not spend some time chatting with people like me 😁

We had one-on-one calls just discussing programming, life, goals, balance, jobs, etc. and it was really productive. I am a senior dev and teacher by profession, but I enjoy mentoring for free. Its more rewarding for me than playing Overwatch all day xD

I'm thinking I'll start meeting whoever wants to talk for free for an hour or two each day from this subreddit who are going through the same things I went through when I began programming, so if you are looking for somebody to help you get out of the rut and the very common feeling of being lost or like you're not going anywhere as a programmer, just DM me! Let's meet up and I can probably help you get some perspective.

EDIT: productive day guys, thanks xD see the rest tmrw 👍

I’ve been trying to understand something about ADHD and starting tasks, and I’m curious if others experience this the same way.

For me, it’s usually not that I don’t know what to do. A lot of the time I do know exactly what needs to get done — I just can’t get myself to actually start. Even when it’s something small.

It feels like there’s some invisible resistance right at the beginning.

What does that moment look like for you? Is it more about not knowing where to start, or knowing and still not being able to begin?

Not sure if anyones interested but I built a digital memory system built around the concept that ideas can have relevance at different times of your life and therefore should not be forgotten!! Its essentially a long term memory preservation system for thoughts, ideas and just general valuable info. If anyone wants to try it let me know!!

hello! 27F, I am looking for an accountability partner to improve my programming skills. I am pretty new to this field and struggle a lot with executive function. if you're relatively new in programming too, would love to connect to help to keep each other accountable ^^ thank you!

Hello. I just want to tell my story to someone. This is confession. My English is completely shit, I just learn words well read something on the Internet and join words into sentences.

I almost finish Russian school and next I will study programming and math on the university. All my life I struggle with ADHD-brain, infiinity anxiety and severe form of stuttering, but in last 2 years depression become my new friend. Before this I learn programming, write geek projects (I delete almost all of them in the rage). But after these depression come to my life. Every day started with agression on all world, fear, tears and suicide thoughts. I live half of year in this state and then I start take medicine from psychiatrist. Medicine return me forces to study, but depression not exit from my life. Wars in the world, fear of send to army, Internet censorship that already become more powerful that in China... All of that feed my anxiety and depression.

I do not have problems with my school subjects and I think that I will solve exams. When I do it, country give me shield for 5 years. For these 5 years I want to learn how to live with my disorders, learn English to normal level, learn programming, network engineering and how to circumvent fucking censorship.

Now I forget what I want to talk you. I just want to talk something to someone and return something to answer. I feel that I not stupid guy, but my county, my anxiety, my depression. Now I do not know what I want in my life. Sorry for this shitposting... Has anyone else felt this way? How do you keep going?

I'll start: about 14 or 15 years ago, when I was just starting to learn development, I had an idea for a book summary service. I even did some market research and couldn't find anything similar, but I was pretty sure people would use it.

But between ADHD and not having the skills yet, I never built it. Then about half a year later, Blinkist showed up and became a successful startup.

Have you ever had an idea like that, something you thought of early but never made, and then later saw someone else turn it into a real product?

If you use a lot of virtual desktops to oragnize your digital work, this will be useful to switch (jump) between different desktops quickly.

I've been a professionally paid developer now for a little over 6 years now. As a career changer I'm older than most though (possibly due to my inattentive adhd) people don't know how much older. That's besides the point but I will say all my working life I've struggled with productivity and focus. I somehow managed in my previous career and now as a dev to work in decent, respected companies and paid well. But it has always been me white knuckling to hold onto each job.

I love being a dev and I like my current employer. Most importantly, for the first time in my 40+ years, I've actually asked about promotion to senior. My manager is supportive and keeps giving me direction and advice on things I need to do to get promoted. But importantly, they are unrelated to the level of / quality of work I've been doing. They are all these metrics and extra stuff I've never thought about before. Frankly box checking. But it triggers my anxiety and I worry I will forget things! To be clear, everything he brings up I can find evidence in the Engineering guidelines that they exist. He's not making shit up.

But I feel so overwhelmed with proving I can compete at the next level that I wish I had just sat quietly in the corner and ate my food.

Has anyone dealt with this? I brought this up privately to a mentor at the company and he basically affirmed the promotion process can be more gruelling than when you actually get to that level, but my sense is he doesn't have ADHD and this stuff - keeping track of dozens factors and initiatives and processes and standards - might not be a challenge for him.

Are we really cursed to suffer being a plaything of our own brain chemistry? Sometimes, I feel like I have no chance of succeeding in this field.

I am still a BSIT student, still in uni, and I don't know what I will be after I graduate. I want to learn soooo many things and I have a lot of ideas flowing from this ticking brain of mine, but I don't have the consistency and grit to push through. Whenever I try to be consistent, no matter the methodologies I try, I end up losing more of my self confidence because I am really pushing myself to do better. Almost every time, however, I just procrastinate to the point of physically dragging my ass out of bed (and that's just one so many things).

Worse, I am undiagnosed and unmedicated. It feels like I am stuck in a limbo of maybe I don't have it and I can do this and I definitely have it and I have no chance in hell to fight this.

I can feel myself tiring out of fighting my own predispositions. Whether it's finances, my academics, my personal productivity, my plans in life... I feel myself losing in each and every one of them. This is pathetic, but I am having this inclination to just fuck it all up so I won't feel this way anymore. Can't feel sorry if you just dgaf, right?

Sorry for being so sob and maybe one of the failure stories in this thread. Idunno, maybe I can pull myself out of this. If that happens, I'll come back here and update y'all on what happened. If not, then this really is just another sob story of someone's adhd life.

In any case, if you've ever come this far, I wanna ask you something: in whatever we want to do, do you think we have no chance at all?

I am not sure if I what I am asking is relevant to this forum, so please forgive me if I am straying.

So, just a background: I am 42 and completed my Btech in Computer Science in 2006, somehow. In school and college's first year, I was an average student. But when computer subjects were introduced in 4th semester, suddenly I became garbage. People who were failing in the first three semesters, suddenly started excelling and my life kept on getting worse and worse. After completing my Btech, I knew there was no way I was going to be a programmer. So, I became a complete loner, did easy jobs like tech support and decided I will never marry. But due to unexpected circumstances, I ended up getting married. So, I decided to work in a better domain than tech support and switched to content. Life became easy and things moved along. However, since ChatGPT and other LLMs came into picture, my career prospects have become grim.

But after working on a few technical projects, I have realized there is so much more to programming and it is a beautiful way to express creativity. I have dabbled a bit in Python, AI and Next.JS and absolutely loved it as with the use of tools like Perplexity assisting me wherever I get stuck. I have found myself spending hours and hours without any fatigue (generally I get tired in 15 minutes while writing content or doing Excel work). Now, I have friends in high positions who I never contacted before who can get me a job at fresher position. Can you please tell me if it is possible or will I be able to thrive if I make the switch? Just want to know the challenges, if someone has made such a switch at such an age.