For me it's different. I am not diagnosed, but I think my executive function doesn't work right. It's really hard for me to start a new task, but when it is interesting enough I can hyper focus until it's done. In the past that often happened when I needed to implement something not too trivial. But now that AI does the implementation in minutes I need to switch tasks constantly and it is honestly super exhausting for me.

This resonates. The "idea to result" loop getting shorter with AI is genuinely addictive, I've noticed it in my own workflow too. But theres a flip side nobody talks about: once you get used to that speed, going back to manual implementation feels 10x worse than it did before. The paralysis dosn't go away, it just gets masked. The real question is whether AI is solving the problem or just compressing the dopamine cycle around it.

As someone with ADHD, it’s a lot more nuanced than that. Coding agents can remove task paralysis, but they also introduce many other distractions. Being one prompt away from zero to one is a double edged sword, because it means any random thought, idea and side project is also a prompt away.

I've a thought that AI could drive humanity to appreciate humans, as a side effect of its rise.

Nowadays we're bumping up against alternative nonhuman intelligences, nowadays as we go about our lives. New neighbors, kind of.

And AI has its idea of 'living' in this world .. as a servant to us mainly.

So human life is changing: we now have the opportunity to relate to life (existential) while we're being influenced by the valuable accompaniment of these new docile servants. We're able to "see our plantation and peacocks" if you will.

We experience our life-challenges differently ... now being alive to see our daily labors accomplished by others, and we're able to reap the benefits: more dopamine, resources, whatever.

Our role is changing somewhat, being 'wealthy' or 'elevated'.

I think this poses new questions implicitly, like: Q: Do we like our new wealthy-in-productive-results selves? Is this a life worth living?

Re: Claude usage limits

There was a comment the other day that explained how to use the new DeepSeek V4 with Claude Code.

I mention because it's roughly fifty times cheaper than Claude, and the quality gap is closing.

Which is the difference between "I don't use it for anything serious because I constantly run into limits" and "I can actually use the thing..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002640

It seems "Sonnet-ish" in quality so far, but I haven't tested it much yet.

In case anyone else is wondering if others feel this: yes, i can feel the risk of dopamine overshoot while using AI. As context, I've historically had ADHD that is crippling to a certain normal lifestyle. and I def feel the risk of mania or manic episodes when using these tools, in ways that I used to associate with the drug state of certain ADHD drugs.

Now I am recontextualizing the past experiences as the feeling of moving toward my goals at a speed I am not accustomed to, rather than being exclusively a drug effect

AI is a multiplier of both our expertise and our defects.

I have learned how to hide my stupidity from AI's all-seeing eye and the result is the best I can expect from a tool that helped me become 100X more productive, I can't be happier.

  > What is it good for?
  > For me, personally? It helps me overcome my task paralysis. As mentioned earlier: I have a plan. A strategy. An idea. I just need someone (or something), who has fun in churning through the implementation. I have the ideas. But boy is coding exhausting. 

I find the same. AI helps me overcome any paralysis. I just think "hey it's cheap to write the prompt" and go on.

I’ve been using CC as my GTD-buddy. All the usual plaintext files in a git repo, all the usual processes and workflows and constraints; but I’ve written two skills that have taken the activation energy out of what used to be the hard parts for me: /process-inbox and /weekly-review. Process-inbox interviews me item by item, making suggestions which I accept or amend, and it does the bookkeeping. I tell it when I want to do something and what calendar I want it on and it makes the calendar event. Weekly-review walks through an overview of everything done that week, all my open tasks and projects, makes sure everything has a scheduled next action. Sometimes I make a note, cancel something, reschedule something, whatever.

This is nothing I couldn’t do on my own, and in fact, it’s a lot slower than just manually editing files myself. But: this way it’s actually getting done :)

There’s too much hyperbole on this subject, so I won’t add to it; but it has solved a lot of very-long-running problems of mine.

Best way I've found around this: I design and code the UI for a given feature by hand and then let AI do the more tedious backend work (HITL/human-in-the-loop) I don't wish to do by hand.

It's wonderful if you do the things you enjoy by hand and delegate the "buhhh" stuff to AI. This approach also circumvents the need to review massive PRs (you're only ever concerned with the individual feature, not the whole farm).