Hah. Prescription for CEO AI psychosis: buy more AI, invest more time in AI, this naysayer says you can make 100x organizations!

It's a nice addition to their ordinary psychosis. Otherwise I can't explain stupid shit like metaverse.

I can't believe we got the dumbest version of Snow Crash

And there was a comment here on HN just a few days ago saying "AI psychosis is not a real thing".

Related:

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379

Gotta love the authority of headlines using "apparently".

It's not exclusive to CEOs.

Even senior developers can succumb to it. They try agentic development, they see that a single prompt can generate a day's worth of work in mere minutes _and it works_ and they are so impressed that they immediately turn to Twitter to share the joy. Understandable!

Once they inevitably discover that the AI generated code is called "slop" for a reason, they are too embarrassed to post to Twitter that they were deluded.

Sometimes that happens though: a few days ago a developer on Twitter bragged that they have created a C to Metal compiler using AI and it works. Today they had to post regrets, explaining that nothing works except tests and the code is shit. Sadly can't find the tweet though.

I heard the term AI vampire as well for people sleeping 4h hours just for another hit of that prompt drug.

Pyschosis? Do they mean just crap at critical thinking?

The article itself isn't great, but it speaks to one of my greatest concerns about AI. People who engage heavily with it are falling in the behavioral billionaire trap: It is deeply unhealthy to be constantly affirmed in your behaviors. No, not all of your ideas are great, not everything you say has value. You are not a cut above the rest.

There are enough stories of people completely losing the plot, thinking they've invented a new type of maths or similar, but there's almost certainly also a much more subtle influence in most of us, where the constant affirmation, obedience, apologia, reframes our expectations of how interactions should be.

We are already the most narcissistic generation, having been molded by social media to compare, stats-max, and overobsess about who we are. Chatbots are now fanning the flames.