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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by tosh »

dgellow wrote: post #21
swader999 wrote: post #7

I'm seeing people argue and debate with AI. One will cut and paste AI reasoning, another will rebut with the same approach. I need a popcorn machine in my office.

Get yourself one of those popcorn microwave bowls: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mA19sd51L.jpg You get hot popcorn in ~2min without the need for a whole machine you will have to clean and maintain. I got one as a gimmick a few years ago and it has become one of our favorite evening snack

does this work better than putting a bag of popcorn into the microwave?

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

#52

Post by bonoboTP »

slibhb wrote: post #50

There's no reason to link "AI psychosis" (i.e. interactiong with AI triggering psychotic episodes in the mentally ill) to people who "trust AI too much" or "don't bother to verify outputs". You can be the most AI-pilled wingnut in the world, but until you start hallucinating, there's no reason to call this psychosis.

It's just become a buzzword and a fighting word to hurl at the enemy in the AI wars.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

#54

Post by GrumpyYoungMan »

fzeindl wrote: post #15
JSR_FDED wrote: post #11

It’s just amazing we keep using the word “leaders” when they’re clearly not.

Since they hire, command work and fire, they kinda are.

No, they are managers; management and leadership are different things. Being a manager is a set of things that a person is authorized to do on behalf on their employer, "hire, command work and fire" as you said being examples. Leaders nurture their staff so that they work together effectively as a team to achieve goals. Very few managers are good leaders.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

#55

Post by Manfrednotfunny »

paimapi wrote: post #34

"74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights" it's sad that c-suite believes the advice given by an LLM for a Platonically ideal software stack that looks nothing like the actual implementation moreso than their own ICs. it just reads as more evidence that LLMs are better at replacing leade…

C* can mean anything.

The CTO of my last company thought that an API request under 1 second is okay as the customer at that endpoint wouldn't mind anything under 1 second.

I explained to him that under 1 second for this particular task is crazy high. He explained to me that it works fine as it is and its only one customer (the company customer) complaines to him about this issue every few month.

I fixed the SQL query, the problem was gone forever.

The same CTO got lulled into some weird talks with some AWS Account Manager for no reason. He told me what we should do and i explained to him how all of this (nicely of course) doesn't correlate to what we have, do and need.

I'm often enough surprised that our society runs.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

#56

Post by nine_k »

fzeindl wrote: post #15
JSR_FDED wrote: post #11

It’s just amazing we keep using the word “leaders” when they’re clearly not.

Since they hire, command work and fire, they kinda are.

Bosses are those who hire and fire. Leaders are those who other people willingly follow.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by p1mrx »

tosh wrote: post #51
dgellow wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get yourself one of those popcorn microwave bowls: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71mA19sd51L.jpg You get hot popcorn in ~2min without the need for a whole machine you will have to clean and maintain. I got one as a gimmick a few years ago and it has become one of our favorite evening snack

does this work better than putting a bag of popcorn into the microwave?

Popcorn bags are a significant source of PFAS and microplastics.

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

#59

Post by xkcd-sucks »

rockbruno wrote: post #20

I don't like the term "AI psychosis" because I think it's the incorrect way to describe what's happening here. I think "cognitive surrender" is a much better term. Because it's not that people are getting "crazy" due to AI, but rather that somehow these people are totally fine with having zero critical thinking and blindly trusting whatever junk the AI decides to regurgitate. A lot of my colleagues don't even have op…

"AI dementia"? NB psychotic delusions are an optional feature of dementia

Re: AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

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Post by paimapi »

Manfrednotfunny wrote: post #55
paimapi wrote: post #34

"74% of executives said they had more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues or friends, and 44% said they would defer to its reasoning over their own insights" it's sad that c-suite believes the advice given by an LLM for a Platonically ideal software stack that looks nothing like the actual implementation moreso than their own ICs. it just reads as more evidence that LLMs are better at replacing leade…

C* can mean anything. The CTO of my last company thought that an API request under 1 second is okay as the customer at that endpoint wouldn't mind anything under 1 second. I explained to him that under 1 second for this particular task is crazy high. He explained to me that it works fine as it is and its only one customer (the company customer) complaines to him about this issue every few month. I fixed the SQL query…

there was an engineering director at my previous company (and who was former Amazon) who wrote his first PR with Claude

it had 30k lines of diff and was a complete refactor of how one of our core features worked

the staff eng he tagged to code review it politely declined to do so and given that this director was let go fairly recently, I'd like to imagine that the PR will exist as a fun surprise for any future maintainer running cleanup

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