How I Use AI as an Executive Function Prosthetic

Short summary

Executive function is the brain's management layer—not intelligence, but the system that turns knowing-what-to-do into doing-it. ADHD breaks this across four components: working memory, task initiation, context switching, and time perception. Claude Code works as an external prosthetic: storing context in CLAUDE.md eliminates memory burden, decomposing tasks lowers initiation barriers, warm starts after interruptions speed recovery, and time markers prevent drift.

• •Executive function has four distinct components (working memory, task initiation, context switching, time perception) that break separately and need different solutions
• •Claude Code serves as an external prosthetic system to support weak areas rather than relying on willpower or discipline
• •Assistive tools for cognitive gaps are engineering solutions, not failures or cheating

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