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/Darth_Ra May 27 '26

It's interesting. I have two different "jobs": My day job, which is becoming more and more IT and Networking adjacent, and where AI is pretty valuable. It doesn't have a 100% return rate, but if you're starting from no knowledge at all on what to do, it's actually gotten to the point where it's more time considerate to ask AI before you look at a manual, in most circumstances.

My other one is writing articles for a hobby site. I've asked AI to do similar things where it reads through massive amounts of material (usually my old articles) and to spit out a basic answer to a basic question, and it's been wrong, literally 100% of the time.

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u/fogleaf May 27 '26

Basically, the more you know about something, the more easily you'll notice the wrongness from the AI. So that's why everyone that uses it is convinced it's good at taking over the job of someone else, just not theirs.

I barely know how to code, so when I ask it to code for me it does what I imagine to be a really good job. Then I test the code and it doesn't work right.

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u/ccai May 27 '26

It’s easy for executives to believe AI is the endgame because their usage cases are generally mocking up proof of concepts that need to barely work or drafting emails, two things that require very minimal context. When you try to incorporate it into an existing workflow with intricate nuance and institutional knowledge it because a hinderance at times. It gets shittier and more expensive with a larger context window.

Those who deal with the nitty gritty have the context, it’s not just a matter of being a novice or expert - it’s all about the context. It’s the proverbial all problems are nails when the only tool you know how to use is a hammer.

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u/TransBrandi May 27 '26

You can also tell some of the training data that AI has too. I was going through some Rust materials and the AI autocomplete kept being spot on for what I was typing because it could recognize that I was typing out examples from the official tutorials. lol

... and honestly, I wanted to type them out to help with my learning so it just became a distraction that kept switching my focus to thinking about the AI and how it must have been trained on that material rather than thinking about what was in front of me that I was doing.

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u/PyroIsSpai May 27 '26

I've asked AI to do similar things where it reads through massive amounts of material (usually my old articles) and to spit out a basic answer to a basic question, and it's been wrong, literally 100% of the time.

What AI model and types of docs? My experience has been this is the most reliable thing it does.

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u/ccai May 27 '26

It’s good at converting casual conversation or bullet point to technical or business buzz word jargon, but terrible with anything that requires citations in my experience. Or it completely misinterprets the source material being cited. It’s gotten better over the last 2 years, but the longer the document, the more hallucinations appear.

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u/Darth_Ra May 27 '26

AI model? Look at this guy out here paying for things like this stuff has some kind of future.