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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Re: I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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Post by XenophileJKO »

kakugawa wrote: post #94
Utkarsh_Mood wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

share the prompt!

https://claude.ai/settings/general (Instructions for Claude) --- Treat my claims as hypotheses, not decisions. Before agreeing with a proposed change, state the strongest case against it. Ask what evidence a change is based on before evaluating it. Distinguish tactical observations from strategic commitments — don't silently promote one to the other. If you paraphrase my proposal, name what you changed. Mark confiden…

I've found just asking it to be "critical but constructive", goes a long long way.

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Post by evenhash »

technion wrote: post #254
yumraj wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't help him. Let him figure it out by himself, else they (he and hospital) will never learn.

A hospital could not learn a bigger lesson from this person than their existing big players. (Screams in "deployed in 2026 a new product that only works in internet explorer" in healthcare).

I work at a university and we still have some workstations that need IE as well, for a healthcare vendor app that needs ActiveX. Up until recently we even had some machines running Windows 7.

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Post by agnosticmantis »

> I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation.

What's the historical context for this MTBF vs. MTTR reckoning?

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Post by mbgerring »

kristjansson wrote: post #127
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…

> if you just prompt the AI and believe what it tell you then you have AI psychosis This is the right definition. LLM outputs have undefined truth value. They’re mechanized Frankfurtian Bullshiters. Which can be valuable! If you have the tools or taste to filter the things that happen to be true from the rest of the dross. However! We need a nicer word for it. Suggesting someone has “AI psychosis” feels a bit too imp…

“Toked out” is really, really good, thank you for this

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Post by bastawhiz »

agnosticmantis wrote: post #383

> I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. What's the historical context for this MTBF vs. MTTR reckoning?

If you optimize for MTBF, you optimize for it to be a long time between failures. You optimize for the system not going down in the first place, but when it does do down it might be Pretty Bad.

If you optimize for MTTR, you don't care how often you go down and instead optimize your recovery time to be as short as possible.

The concepts are pre-computing.

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Post by jampa »

Groxx wrote: post #24

Bug reports also go down when people lose faith that they will be fixed, because reporting them is often a substantial time commitment. You see it happen pretty regularly as trust in a group/company collapses.

The last three times I filed detailed bug reports as a client, all I got back were AI replies asking the same questions I’d already answered in the original report and suggesting alternatives I’d explicitly said I’d already tried. No wonder people don’t write bug reports anymore.

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Post by lovich »

tayo42 wrote: post #333
lovich wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn’t think just offloading your thinking to AI was AI psychosis. To me AI psychosis is the handful of friends I’ve had who have done things like have a full on mourning session when a model updates because they lost a friend/lover, the one guy who won’t speak to his family directly but has them talk to ChatGPT first and then has ChatGPT generate his response, or the two who are confident that they have discovered…

How do you have so many crazy friends?

I work in software and don’t come from the upper class sending their kids into faangs for their first job at the tender age of 28.

Were kinda predisposed to mental illness as a group, not too surprised that a new source of insanity pushed a few over the edge.

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Post by kc-chris »

elktown wrote: post #106
mitchellh wrote: post #76

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Correct. I use AI a ton and I'm having more fun every day than I ever did before thanks to it (on average, highs are higher, lows are lower). Your characterization is all very accurate. Thank you. Here's some other topics I've written on it: - https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey - https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-block-economy - https://mitchellh.com/writing/simdutf-no-libcxx (complex change th…

I thinking that it’s quite a different experience going all Jackson Pollock with AI in your own studio on your own terms, compared to the sorry state of affairs of having 100s of Pollocks throwing paint around wildly within a corp to meet a paint quota.

Oh bollocks.

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Post by Izkata »

teeray wrote: post #321
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!"

My prediction is that in the next year, we’ll start to see some dismantling of code review at some companies. It might take the form of “AI-only review,” or something similar, but many companies are getting frustrated with developers saying “no” to immediately merging slop they can barely understand.

Pretty sure I've seen references to AI-only review already happening...
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