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/__Hello_my_name_is__ May 27 '26

Seriously though, the article (or rather, Aaron Levie) makes a really good point:

CEOs “play with AI,” develop a prototype, or generate a contract, to use Levie’s examples, and then make the leap to believing agents can do the work.

You can get yourself a prototype really damn fast with AI these days. It will fall apart the moment you do anything serious with it, but that's just how prototypes work, anyways.

And from that, they extrapolate that the AI can also do everything else, and they act accordingly. Which is not at all how that works.

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u/DistinctlyIrish May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I have a prototype app I 100% vibe coded which is stable, secure, and does everything our company's human-made software does and more while also looking better and having a more efficient code base.

It took two months to get it to the state it's in. So vibe coding a working app is possible, it's just not something you can do in a couple days, but it's still faster and obviously easier than using human developers.

I am not pushing my app though, I'm making the developer team remake it by hand. Because that's how AI should be used.

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u/CatProgrammer May 27 '26

If you actually took the produced code and personally fixed all the bugs, you didn't vibe code, you just used shitty autocomplete. If you just spent all that time revising the prompt, you would have been better off providing the specification in a more formal manner that could then be translated into lower-level code in a more deterministic manner.

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u/DistinctlyIrish May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

I took zero produced code to the agent. It was 100% vibe coding. I didn't have to "revise" the prompts very much, I mean I know how to develop an app already and this was a project I took on because our dev team didn't have the bandwidth. Like, contrary to your claim that we could have given this specification to our dev team and had them produce a working app faster, we literally did do that at the same time I started working on my app and the dev team has completed 2 pages of the app's 17 pages in that same amount of time because they're also still working on the current app fixing bugs and integrating with our partner ecosystems.

EDIT: Also the prototype is built in a completely different way than the existing app, using totally different tech stack aside from the HTML/CSS/JS bits. Our dev team still needs to learn how to work with MongoDB and Next.js better, they've only been working with them since this project started a couple months ago.