I Have ADHD. My AI Agent Is the Best and Worst Thing for It.
The author, who has ADHD, describes their experience using an AI agent as both beneficial and challenging, noting that while it increases productivity by handling operational tasks, it also reduces focus by enabling too many concurrent projects. The AI agent helps turn ideas into prototypes by managing planning and follow-through, which traditionally posed difficulties for the author. However, the ease of starting new tasks has created a productivity paradox where attention is spread too thin across multiple threads.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3805838) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Pawel Jozefiak Posted on Apr 30 • Originally published at thoughts.jock.pl I Have ADHD. My AI Agent Is the Best and Worst Thing for It. #ai #productivity #adhd #buildinpublic I have ADHD. I run an AI agent. Those two facts interact, and the interaction is not a clean win. It is a trade. I wrote the long version on my blog this week. Here is the compressed view for fellow builders. The bad part. An agent lets you start almost anything in a sentence.
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