LOL. Imagine having an AI subscription in the first place.

I use many of these tools, but I didn’t need them. I can’t afford to maintain any of them

That’s it. He doesn’t need them. But in order to maintain them, he’ll use up even more of his time, and probably spend a lot more on AI to do the maintenance for him. In the end, what is the cost, and what is he getting out of it?

I think for a lot of people, AI is like so many addictive video games. They take our attention and make us feel like we’re getting something out of the interaction. Each prompt is like doing a run in Sling Kong or Jetpack Joyride. Didn’t go well? Try again. And in the end we’ve wasted a lot of time on something that has little to no value, that nobody else is going to use, and the net result is a lot of wasted time with very little to show for it. We have a high score, we have some collectibles, and we’re no better off than we were when we started.

I think one answer to this is more focus on the problem, and less velocity. Velocity is not helpful if you’re not pointed in the right direction, and even if you are pointed in the right direction it’s not useful if you overshoot your destination.

I’m confused on one main point from the author. Are these created projects for work or just personal? This answer changes the dynamic of the entire article.

Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don’t want to maintain any of it.

If they were personal projects, then there’s nothing wrong. They were useful for a moment, or were fun to build, and if they’ve exceeded their usefulness, get rid of them. We do this all the time with hobbies, so why would it be a sin with personal code? Nobody spends an hour finishing a crossword puzzle and says “well that was a waste of time”. We spend money on hobbies too, so if your hobby is coding and you want to spend money on an LLM subscription for your hobby, as long as you get value and enjoyment out of it, its fine.

However, if these were supposed to be commercial marketable products, and that business resources were used they yes, clearly there is a lack of planning and resource allocation. Spending time and money building something which has no use can can’t be maintained is a major business error.

Fair point. But is it even more of a ADHD amplifier then a modern smartphone connected to social media?

I found the post to be useless. As a cherry on top, empty blog. I wonder who are the people who have nothing to say, then they post like one silly piece of word salad, then they don’t post for years again. I’d prefer reading someone who actually posts regularly, and is able toto communicate their mind clearly.

Here … I mean, why did you start so many projects, and why did you abandoned them? I too have an ADHD, like many others these days, I believe. Yet, for me, a GPT allows make progress when I’m stuck and don’t know where to start to continue working on my abandoned project. The massive improvement to me is the ability to communicate. To have my mind written, the problem clearly formulated. I have never paid for any subscription and I would never pay them. It would be less convenient when this shit won’t be given for free to folks like me. By that point, I expect I’d just run some less powerful local model. The value I get is from the ability to communicate and have feedback, sometimes (oftentimes) on topic. Yes, it’s slop. The longer the chat, the sloppier it is. But I usually have up to 10 messages conversations, and I use it only in my browser, for like an hour or two a day, tops. Most times, it’s much less than that. About 4 hours a week, summarised.

I usually hit the free limit with Claude and that’s where I stop. I almost never hit that limit with ChatGPT for some reason. Weirdly, Gemini was absolutely useless to me. I tried it thrice and never opened it again. I have no use for it.

I am not that good to juggle gazillion of projects and languages too. So I don’t. I work on one project, sometimes two or three, but they are highly related, they are almost the same, or solve the same thing from different angels.

I’d love to discuss it, but this particular piece has zero value. To me, there’s not much to discuss.

And, it’s irrelevant to my ADHD. Perhaps because I actually do something with it, and I have no Instagram, Facebook et al. I don’t doom scroll, so the dopamine is here only when I’m able to write some tiny helpful script with one prompt. When things go into some complex work, a GPT always produces incredible useless shit. So, I’ve learned there’s no point in using it that way. So, I use it with very small tasks only.

There screens simultaneously, I can only laugh at these delusional folks who believe they’re being efficient.

I think if AI creates negative effects you shouldn’t use it. I find it quite useful altho I have to be very careful and often cite its sources or explain how it came to a response because I dont trust it much more than a code writing tool and advanced search assistant/summarizee

I know someone’s gonna swoop in a say it cant think/reason/ideate it only matches patterns but I disagree, thats probably part of it but I have gotten many excellent and reliable responses and answers to questions far faster in so using it so I have to brush over those complaints