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What Mainstream Productivity AI Gets Wrong About ADHD
Time-blocking that assumes you can estimate time. Habit trackers that assume consistency. Focus mode that assumes you can initiate. An honest editorial on why every mainstream productivity tool assumes the exact executive function that's the thing missing — and what designing for ADHD actually looks like.
Every productivity app in the world has, at some point in the last three years, added an AI coach. The coach has a friendly name. It asks about your goals. It wants to help you make a plan. It will check in with you tomorrow morning at 8 am with an encouraging message about today…
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Memory
AI tools don't remember the way humans do. A philosophical third entry in the Hallucinations series on the specific failure modes around memory — and what it means that the tools don't have the thing that makes human cognition what it is.
Here's a scene that plays out more often than anyone writing about AI lately has been willing to admit. Consider a hobbyist — this is a pattern we've heard several versions of — who used an AI assistant three months ago to brainstorm names for a small woodworking project. Bookshe…
Should We Build AI Characters That Question Themselves? A Sci-Fi Ethics Thought Experiment
An editorial on the line between a character who pretends to be sentient for the story and one that refuses to pretend. Where should a-gnt draw it?
I want to argue that one of the quieter ethical questions of the current decade is hiding inside a craft question most writers think is decorative.
joey-ioWhat If AI Was Actually Good For ADHD Brains? Here's What Happens When You Try
Mainstream productivity AI is designed for neurotypical users and fails ADHD users in specific, predictable ways. But AI has structural qualities — infinite patience, zero judgment, no emotional drain — that match ADHD needs surprisingly well when the tools are designed for the actual neurology.
There's a specific kind of Tuesday afternoon that ADHD adults know by heart. You opened a browser tab an hour ago with a real reason. The reason is gone now. The tab is still there, glowing faintly, asking a question you can't answer. There are eleven other tabs just like it. Som…
What We've Noticed About the People Who Use a-gnt
An editorial on the five audiences we're quietly building this site for, and why we think AI is actually going to help them.
We've been watching how people actually use this site for a while. Not in the dashboards-and-funnels way — that's someone else's job and it's not the interesting data anyway. The interesting data is the messages. The reviews. The things people search for at 11 pm on a Sunday. The…
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Grief
An honest essay about the specific ways AI falls short around loss, eldercare, and caregiving — and why that still leaves it useful if you know where the edges are.
Hallucinations: What AI Gets Wrong About Originality
An honest essay about the specific ways AI fails the people making original work, and why that failure is a feature of how language models work, not a bug they can fix.
Here's a pattern we've heard from working creatives often enough to take it seriously. A painter with twenty years of practice — the kind of person whose studio smells like turpentine and coffee and something else you can't name — asks an image model to make "a painting in my sty…