I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

TEXT START: ADHD-friendly outputs. No ADHD diagnosis needed!

The Dissection

This is a prompt-engineering wrapper that converts attention fatigue into ten output constraints: act first, number steps, expose state, cap lists, and eliminate conversational padding. Its product is not coding capability. It is reduced friction in supervising coding capability.

The Core Fallacy

It treats buried answers as the primary failure mode, as if better formatting preserves human control. Under DT, the material question is whether the agent performs the cognitive work, not whether its prose is pleasant to inspect. This skill does not resist automation; it makes automated coding easier to consume and therefore accelerates the displacement it implicitly assumes humans can manage.

Hidden Assumptions

• The human remains the accountable operator and retains meaningful authority after coding work is automated.
• Concision, numbered steps, and time estimates improve decisions rather than compressing uncertainty.
• A plugin can reliably override model behavior across tasks and versions.
• Ten behavioral rules possess durable scarcity instead of being absorbed by model vendors.
• Attention management is the bottleneck, rather than verification, liability, compute access, or ownership of AI capital.

Social Function

Transition management with a layer of copium; also a partial truth. It correctly attacks a real interface defect—models waste scarce attention with preambles, tangents, and fake warmth. But it frames structural labor displacement as an individual workflow problem. The “one scroll” joke is accurate marketing: the plugin sells relief from symptoms while improving the machinery causing the disease.

The Verdict

Useful servitor middleware, not a sovereign asset and not an anti-obsolescence defense. Its moat is near zero: the rules are copyable, and vendors can absorb them natively. It may help humans supervise the transition temporarily; it cannot preserve productive participation once agents no longer need them.