I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

Post by whateveracct » Sat, May 16, 2026, 1:09 AM UTC

leoc wrote: post #124

zmmmmm wrote: post #113

I think AI rescue consulting is going to be come a significant mode of high value consulting, similar to specialists who come in to try and deal with a security breach or do data recovery. Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average m…

> Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average more defects than they close and the whole system will be unstable. Wow, it’s true, AI really is set to match human performance on large, complex software systems! ;)

Post by tayo42 » Sat, May 16, 2026, 1:12 AM UTC

lovich wrote: post #101

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…

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…

Post by jplusequalt » Sat, May 16, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

monkpit wrote: post #323

jimbokun wrote: post #275

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Humans who have been writing systems like that for many years know how to maintain and modify them successfully. It’s just that our industry has a bias towards youth who don’t think they have anything to learn from those who came before them.

> Humans who have been writing systems like that for many years know how to maintain and modify them successfully. Do they??

Post by vivianzhe » Sat, May 16, 2026, 1:17 AM UTC

Post by danbolt » Sat, May 16, 2026, 1:19 AM UTC

ethbr1 wrote: post #322

abhiyerra wrote: post #188

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Heh. Got a customer recently around this. Entire infrastructure and CI/CD vibecoded. They half implemented Kubernetes in Github Actions that were several thousand lines long and impossible to understand. I think the problem will get worst. I dislike the marketing around AI, but I do think it is a useful tool to help those who have experience move faster. If you are not an expert, AI seems to create a complex solution…

> If you are not an expert, AI seems to create a complex solution to whatever it is you were trying to do. I've been watching non-developers vibe code stuff, and the general failure mode seems to be ignorance of 3-pick-2 tradeoffs. They'll spam "make it more reliable" or some such, and AI will best-effort add more intermediary redis caches or similar patterns. But because the vibe coders don't actually know what a re…