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Posted by domhudson 23 hours ago

I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer(github.com)
477 points | 328 commentspage 6
latentsea 11 hours ago|
Kinda offensive name to some of us btw.
bethekind 21 hours ago||
Still a great skill, but at this point, I just write "I have adhd, can you explain that again" or "I have adhd". Works great for compressing it ELI5, but less dumb
ahknight 21 hours ago|
I end my user CLAUDE.md files with:

"- I'm not always going to read every word, so end each summary message with a TLDR of what you found, what you recommend, and what you need from me."

It works really well.

Sol doesn't need it at all.

bethekind 21 hours ago||
Another favorite of fine is asking it read something then to tell me any "questions, comments concerns" it has. Great for getting the jist of articles fast.
paretolaw 17 hours ago||
If claude only did what we tell him...
altern8 15 hours ago||
With Claude—and I feel Opus 5 in particular—I always feel like I'm talking in circles.

Just when I think the task is finally done, it mentions a caveat that might invalidate the whole thing. Or it adds a hint at the end about something that it didn't look into but might be a potential problem. ALWAYS.

If I ask a yes/no question, it's always a short novel that barely answers the question and adds 3-4 side quests.

It's exhausting. Luckily I get paid for it but Jesus Christ, can't they see how annoying it is to use the thing? What were they thinking

code_biologist 15 hours ago|
Opus 4.7/4.8/5 have a built-in nitpicking as anti-syphcophancy. Fable too. The models are structurally incapable of not nipicking.

I suspect the nitpicking helps engagement metrics and it doesn't harm RLVF outcomes, so there's just not good signal against it.

kulahan 14 hours ago||
>ADHD-friendly outputs. No ADHD diagnosis needed!

Don't worry, that's how it works in the real world, too.

nate 14 hours ago||
I've installed multiple of these skills. but it seems to quickly revert to crappy writing. i've tried the adhd. the brain fried at the end of day. the "Concise" output from the harness itself. the most useful fix to me has been yelling at it "Speak English!! No jargon!!!" it goes back to more concise talking for a little while.

Fable 5.1 is better at this so far though. :(

quietraster 21 hours ago||
the 'burying the answer' framing is so accurate. does the
hinkley 18 hours ago||
Might I suggest you instead call this Executive Summary?

It's not just neurodiverse people who would like to get to the fucking point sooner and the explanations afterward.

All of us have other shit we need to be doing.

jasonlotito 17 hours ago||
Why is this a skill? It should be an output setting, so you can just set your output to this, and that's it. You don't have to run the skill every time. Go into settings and look up outputs, and just set it up there. As a skill, it's worthless.
IshKebab 18 hours ago|
I solved this by switching from Claude to Codex. It's crazy how much faster it is to reply and how much less verbose its replies are. Dunno why Claude is popular at all...
djmips 17 hours ago|
Intertia. Codex wasn't as good at coding until Astra dropped.
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