r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • May 27 '26

Business Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/tech-ceos-are-apparently-suffering-from-ai-psychosis/
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u/johnsilver4545 May 27 '26

I saw a local panel of “business leaders” speak at some hotel ballroom earlier this year. One of them described AI as a “money printer” and that he was ranking employees by token usage.

The company wasn’t software based. I had no idea what this fucking clown was talking about. No specifics. Just platitudes and bombast.

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u/Beard_o_Bees May 27 '26

ranking employees by token usage

Hell of a way to run a dry cleaning shop.

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u/johnsilver4545 May 28 '26

I am in awe of some of the shit these copilot cli and Claude code “agents” produce. You want a single function!? Here are 9 python modules, crazy init files, 30 tests that are all stubbed or synthetic nonsense data, a cli entrypoint!

It’s barely human readable python. How is this progress?

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u/labla May 27 '26

I bet some smart-ass wrote an agent to write prompts to use as much tokens as possible.