I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

Post by chrisweekly » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

bayindirh wrote: post #64

taffydavid wrote: post #22

This post calls out how you can't argue with these people because they say its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" the top reply is from someone doing exactly that, arguing "but the agents are so fast!"

I was talking with a friend in the early days of AI boom. I argued that over-reliance in AI will create all kinds of catastrophes. The answer I got is "It's game theory. Someone will do it, and you'll be forced to do it, too. It can't be that bad". I mean, yes, logic is useful, but ignorance of risks? Assuming that moving blazingly fast and pulverizing things will result in good eventually? This AI thing is not progr…

Post by vadepaysa » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

Post by throwaway613746 » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

999900000999 wrote: post #38

nialse wrote: post #8

I'm starting to long for the age after AI. When the generative euphoria has settled and all outputs are formally verified based on exquisite architectures and standards.

This is the new normal. AI will continue to reduce the need for human workers until a Universal Basic Income is established. At the end of the day robots can do the vast vast majority of jobs better and faster. If not now, very soon. I only worry our economic systems won’t keep up

Post by Sharlin » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

slopinthebag wrote: post #56

impulser_ wrote: post #48

I'm pretty sure he's talking about companies and people outsourcing their decision making and thinking to AI and not really about using AI itself. I don't think using AI to write code is AI psychosis or bad at all, but if you just prompt the AI and believe what it tell you then you have AI psychosis. You see this a lot with financial people and VC on twitter. They literally post screenshots of ChatGPT as their thinki…

> companies and people outsourcing their decision making and thinking to AI It's so interesting how easy it is to steer the LLM's based on context to arriving at whatever conclusion you engineer out of it. They really are like improv actors, and the first rule of improv is "yes, and". So part of the psychosis is when these people unknowingly steer their LLM into their own conclusions and biases, and then they get mag…

Post by The_Blade » Fri, May 15, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

DCKP wrote: post #21

miek wrote: post #18

My very large employer has always been glacially slow on modernization and tech adoption. It may now, oddly enough, become a competitive advantage.

Literally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...