I dismissed “AI Psychosis” as a silly term, even as a strong critic of LLMs for programming tools.

> For 7 months I'd been prompting and shipping without ever sitting down and actually reading the code Claude wrote.

But every time I read something like this, I seriously wonder about the mental state of the person that wrote it.

How do you get to this point?

another behavior I noticed is that even you plan with an agent than a lot of business logic leaks to the code.

some states, for an example, are meant to be assumed from the data shape, rather than the actual state fields, but damn they like adding a state field.

nuts

This doesnt make much sense the article itself is AI written

It would have been easy to run a few ai agents to review the code and find these issues as well and architect it clearly

I don’t really think OP is writing code themselves since they admit they still use agents for code gen. I’ve really scaled back the amount I use agents though because in the medium to long term I haven’t been getting good results with them. And it’s not enjoyable. That’s enough for me, I’ll do whatever for a job because who cares, if the company wants slop I will gladly give them that, but for my own shit Ive gone back to circa 2024 and am mostly just using them as a chatbot.

Inb4 “you’re gonna be replaced” god damn it I hope so, I do not want to spend the rest of my life behind a computer screen…

I also code by hand.

But in my main work, reverse engineering, LLMs are godsend, for years now.

You can basically bruteforce binary obfuscation thanks to them. And thanks to eager chinese LLM providers, basically for free.

But I always use LLM only for boring work and rest is for me to do manually, or with scripts of course, but made by me. Because I want to learn.

Yes, there are a lot people using LLMs for full RE automation since they're selling exploits for profit. No problem with me.

I see funny future for huge corporations like Adobe, etc.

Imagine prompt, "Hey Claude, re-implement Adobe Photoshop with clean-room design" One agent will open decompiler, outputs complete low level technical details how is everything implemented.

Second agent implements new Photoshop based on that.

They will be mad and I like this.

You will own nothing, and you will be happy, corpos.

Alternate title: "I did not understand the current limitations of AI and assumed it could do large software design and it generated spaghetti slop"

Yea, that's why engineers are still very important for now (until models can do this type of longer term designs and stick to them).

Luddite.

Wow ok, I will too then. Fuck AI!

>"I'm doing the design work myself, by hand, before any code gets written."

This is what I was doing right from the beginning. AI just fills out methods and doing other low intelligence work. Both are happy. My architectures and code are really mine, easy to read and reason. AI gets paid and does not get a chance to fuck me in the process. At no point I felt any temptation to leave "serious" to AI.