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AI · May 27, 2026

Gave Claude Code ADHD.. Now it thinks 3x better

A preprint introducing ADHD, a parallel divergent ideation method for LLM coding agents. Tree-of-thought with cognitive-frame branching, generator-critic separation, and pruning.

Gave Claude Code ADHD.. Now it thinks 3x better launched on May 27, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,430 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

What it does

Large language model agents exhibit premature convergence : when asked to ideate on an open-ended design problem they default to the first plausible candidate and polish it, producing competent but forgettable output. We introduce ADHD , a method that fans out N parallel divergent branches under structurally different cognitive frames (e.g. regulator , speedrunner , biology , $0 budget ), with no cross-branch context, then converges via a separate critic pass that scores, clusters, and deepens only the top- K survivors. ADHD differs from Chain-of-Thought along three load-bearing axes: branches are isolated rather than shared, branching is driven by vantage-point reframing rather than…from adhdstack.github.io

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