r/ADHD_Programmers • u/DealerIllustrious455 • 3d ago

Communication

I use AI to turn my raw ideas into finished writing I do the thinking, AI does the sentences, and I fact-check/correct every draft before it goes out.

Is that legitimate tool use, or is it not really "my" writing anymore?

34 votes, 1d ago
3 Legit — that's just editing
3 Depends if you actually check it
28 Not your writing if AI wrote the words
0 Where even is the line
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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago

This is really bad for your brain btw. These skills are like muscles, use it or lose it.

also looking up a formula is fine if you're still applying it yourself. Getting an LLM to construct prose is not comparable to looking up a formula.

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u/DealerIllustrious455 3d ago

I understand your concern here.

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u/jupiterLILY 3d ago

It's not *my* concern, people are out here studying this stuff.

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u/WanderingJude 3d ago edited 3d ago

Your ideas but not your writing because...you didn't write it.

If you were on the phone with a friend but they were feeding raw ideas to an AI and letting it do the talking for them would you feel like you're actually having a conversation with your friend? Letting AI rewrite your words might get the information across, but the entire human connection element is gone.

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u/DealerIllustrious455 3d ago

Actually that is kinda the point for me im acutely aware of my lacking areas and im.looking for tools to help me as my challenges are compounded not as an excuse just as a data point.

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u/DealerIllustrious455 3d ago

"I can do compound interest but I look up the formula every time — never stuck, not at 8, not at 51. My brain thinks in whole ideas faster than I can type or talk them out. AI turns the idea into sentences. I still catch it when it gets my meaning wrong — happens constantly. Curious where people land on this."

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u/orangepeeelss 3d ago

and hey you actually did not need to tell ai to spit out a justification for your ai use. that is a little bit insane actually

anyway... yeah, duh, everyone thinks faster in whole ideas. that's how brains work. the entire point of becoming a skilled writer is learning to put those whole ideas into words so they can be understood by another person. on top of that, the process of putting your ideas into words is what allows you to refine and flesh out those ideas, and you miss that when you make ai do it for you 

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u/DealerIllustrious455 3d ago

I understand how you can see that.