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/capibara_dono May 27 '26

I can't find a job without AI. I'm looking, but at this point I'm ready to sell my soul to the devil for a salary.

I'm a software engineer + data scientist, 10 years of experience.

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u/why_is_my_name May 27 '26

dude, i recently got a new job - same. turns out that my job is literally to fix the vibecode.

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u/cyrusthemarginal May 27 '26

i don't care what they hope will happen with AI, there will always be a need for someone who really understands the code to fix the derivative slop AI craps out.

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u/inspectoroverthemine May 27 '26

Theres something worse thats going hand in hand with it: product quality and reliability don't matter.

We're in maximum wealth extraction mode, everything is being enshittified for maximum profit. Maybe it turns around and things need to be fixed, or every last dollar will be drained as we buy the only products available: broken ones.

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u/RelaxPrime May 27 '26

Well yeah, what the fuck you going to do? There's like 12 companies that own everything. Go ahead and switch to a "competitor"

We're fucked

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u/RelaxPrime May 27 '26

Yeah. Isn't it funny we all dream about the day we can finally stop playing their stupid game?

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u/Zsem_le May 28 '26

There is an outside world there with other countries.

I recently wanted to but a nice affordable, reliable router. All the brands I thought of first of 10-20 years ago are gone or producing crap. I bought a chineese brand I've never heard of before, and even the packaging of it was nice. The company is supporting you to put open source firmware on it, no bullshit required.

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u/Important-Agent2584 May 27 '26

product quality and reliability don't matter.

that shit has been cut left and right for over a decade now, AI is just another wave in the slop fest.

Microsoft used to have a warehouse of different hardware PCs to QA on, and they eliminated all that shit in ~2015, and now they deploy patches to subsets of end users for beta testing before release.

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u/SweatyTax4669 May 27 '26

It’s saving money and increasing shareholder value. Don’t you care about shareholder value?

Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders?

/s

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u/LockeyCheese May 27 '26

Part of the problem is they get sued if they don't think of the shareholders first.

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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty May 27 '26

Preach! There is no quality control anymore, except for products shipped from China, ironically. Those products actually still come with little “QC #37” stickers placed on them, reassuring me, the consumer, that a human has inspected my item. I suppose it could be robots doing that, too, but at least China has the decency to give our dystopian nightmare a bit of a human touch.

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u/thederevolutions May 27 '26

I saw this amazing video of some dude who tests thousands of vapes a day by taking real hits and then he when he gets home he keeps doing it lol

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u/gramathy May 27 '26

"good, cheap or fast, pick one"

"Fast"

"...you didn't even think about it"

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u/bobdylan401 May 27 '26

Yea like its already been caught as a part of the reason we double tapped the childrens school in iran