ADHD skill for coding agents: addressing counter-evidence regarding its `human-in-the-loop` applicability for problem reframing.
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GitHub Issue
May 27, 2026
External research review by u/mxriverlynn flagged a peer-reviewed CHI 2025 study (Yagil et al., *"No Evidence for LLMs Being Useful in Problem Reframing"*, arXiv 2503.01631) as direct counter-evidence to the human-in-the-loop application of ADHD-style reframing.
**The study:** Controlled study of 280 design professionals. Found no statistically significant improvement in frame novelty or usefulness when LLMs were used for problem reframing across direct, structured, and free-form integration conditions. LLM use *amplified* the expert-novice gap.
**Why this matters:** the paper's "use cases" section (architecture decisions, naming, strategy/positioning) is dominated by human-in-the-loop contexts, but the paper does not cite or address A7.
**Action:**
- Add a paragraph to §7 (Discussion and Limitations) explicitly acknowledging A7's counter-evidence for human-in-the-loop reframing.
- Distinguish ADHD's primary context (LLM-to-LLM subroutine at decision points inside an agent loop) from A7's measured context (designers using LLMs to reframe their own problems).
- Note honestly that the human-in-the-loop applicability of ADHD is not empirically supported and is a target for future evaluation.
This pre-empts the same critique at v1.0 from a more hostile reader.
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*Raised by u/mxriverlynn in [adhd-application-to-han.md](github.com/testdouble/han/bl... — a detailed external research review using Han's own `...
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Cross-Market Term Frequency
Counts stored text matches for foundational terms like agent loop and human-in-the-loop in analysed public discussions. These counts do not measure adoption.
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- agent loop: 7 records
- human-in-the-loop: 3 records
- problem reframing: 1 records
- counter-evidence: 1 records
- statistically significant improvement: 1 records
- frame novelty: 1 records
- usefulness: 1 records
- LLM-to-LLM subroutine: 1 records
- Discussion and Limitations: 1 records
- empirical support: 1 records
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