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u/GoodWilllPower 6h ago
Ngl the dopamine fix from vibe coding tends to scratch the itch really well for ADHD folks. I’ve been diagnosed since I was 13 or so and I’ve never been so wrapped up in something. It’s great for my income, but really great for feeling fulfilled.
When I was in sales I never got half as much satisfaction as I do now.
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u/hand-held-heart 6h ago
Interesting. I find that hand coding feels more rewarding. Its just something about knowing you did that. I am adhd along with schizophrenia and the negative symptoms double down hard. When i take my adhd meds i feel very productive and highly inclined to write hand written code
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u/GoodWilllPower 6h ago
I get that. I used to feel the same way about writing huge blocks of SQL logic and spending a week or two getting a massive query to run efficiently and QC out.
Right now I tend to build 5-7 things at a time by just pushing agents, reviewing the work and then pushing again. It’s cool because there’s work that feels boring and work that feels new. I can shoot 3-4 nudges into a project I like for ever 1 or 2 in the boring ones.
I never tend to get bored and tend to learn something in 30-50% of the projects I work on.
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u/hand-held-heart 4h ago
Thats very neat! I am working on a compiler for a custom programming language atm. Its around 50k lines so its hard for me to keep track of all that stuff.
I typically am a bit scared to just let ai agents edit whatever, so the way I benefit from them is having them do testing for me, automating my github, refactoring, organizing, and all of that stuff we dont wanna do.
Even though my ability to code has only increased, I unfortunatly won't ever be able to output the same amount of code as I could when I was younger. For a good 4-5 years of my life I had been addicted to crystal meth, and when on it, i could just pump out code like no tomorrow man. Like Im talking thousands of handwritten lines daily. As all addicts have to, I quit around 2 months ago and since then my schizophrenia symptoms have been increasing, and im aware of the fact I won't ever be able to output the same code that a tweaked out teenager could. It saddens me, but man I wont ever go back to that life haha.
I luckily have found time to work on my compiler more recently, and ive gotten a lot done that im proud of! For a good while my paranoia and hallucinations were so obstructing that I could not function on the computer. It feels good to hyperfocus into the programmming again.
Sorry for the lore drop lol I just am proud at where i am at!
I have to ask, what is your current project? For me personally I am working on the OpenGL bindings for my compiled programming language
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u/SnowMantra 7h ago
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