"Explain it like I'm autistic" achieves similar ends.
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
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Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#382The biggest "Claudism" that I have a hard time getting the LLM to stop doing is its insistence on talking about what it didn't do in addition to what it did. "I edited this.py and that.py but I did not edit README.md and I did not commit." or code comments like "This code invokes foo on bar and returns the results directly -- not through a callback." "This code returns true if the user clicked on a button -- not on t…
Sometimes this is useful so I know it didn't accidentally commit something I didn't want it to.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
Relevant anecdata because I've burned many a Claude sessions on this. If you're using Claude Code, then it's in the harness. At the close of many sessions, I would start a meta conversation over why the LLM would consistently break certain rules. What it found when debugging itself is that some of the "contradicting" rules that I had were in fact, not from my rules. Instead, the instructions from its own harness had…
Does the harness apply when you sue Claude model in third party IDE? like Opencode, or third party adds their harness on top, not replacing it?
Claude models seem to work far better in Anthropic harnesses. I don't know if this is because they are trained in that context or because they offer different models through external APIs.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#384As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).
I have it and it is absolute gift that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It has taken years to figure how to harness it though.
Harnessing it? On one side people like DHH arguing ADHD is just "boys being boys", and at the other side there are people who obviously watched too many "ADHD is my superpower" reels on Instagram.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#385Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always good to be paranoid. Even MCPs are not safe. For example Notion injected ads [1] to its official MCP connector to advertise products mid-task. [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w9dluw/notions_o...
MCP is SOAP-XML without the contract or formal language, it's hilarious
it's the same tradeoff between :
- rigidity vs flexibility
- determinism vs creativity
- conservative vs liberal
- right vs left
if you know exactly what you want and how to describe it, use SOAP-XML/REST etc.
if you don't know exactly what you want or how to describe it, use LLM/MCP
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
An LLM does not admit to anything. If you think it does then you're suffering from ai psychosis
Your HN comment is not useful. If you think it is, then you're suffering from HN psychosis.
>you're suffering from HN psychosis.
No. They must be hallucinating.
And mind how 'they' so often select anthropomorphic terms, eg "hallucination" themselves, then ooze from the woodwork to behead someone who does the same, as if they own English and context itself. AI Psychosis, I think, simply means Double Standards and insulation from accountability in design.
There is a very interesting Plausible Deniability angle here. But I'll leave that for the future.
Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
#387Can someone explain why this is a agent skill and not just agent config (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md)?
Skills are kind of a new thing starting around January 2026, but the spec was established about 12 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871173 Anyways the most layman way I’ve seen it explained is this: skills help save token usage for the right context. Not every request needs all instructions all the time - running tests is different than reviewing a PR, so why should the context window have instructi…
Thank you very much, that was so easy to understand, it'll genuinely help me.
Thanks again.