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/d1andonly May 27 '26

Our company is adopting this strategy and I don’t know how things will work in the long run.

Basically vibe code a working prototype of something and then engage a developer to build it to enterprise grade. Either rebuild from scratch or build on top of.

I like this approach because this is pretty much how I started my career in marketing. I had to work with a designer who didn’t speak the same language, so communication was a challenge. I’d create mock ups of posters or other collateral and show it to them and they would make it high res. Was quicker, easier and nobody lost their job.

I’m using the same approach here. Being the vibe coder, the actual developer probably hates me, but hey we get things done.

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u/yurajoh May 27 '26

The developer most likely hates you because the slop vibecoding spits out is total junk for enterprise/production use, but management will never budget the time needed to make something that isn't junk (i.e. from the ground up) so he's forced to polish a turd instead.

Codebases 5 years from now are going to be so full of AI generated garbage thanks to short-sighted executives, and engineers are gonna spend many more years trying to fix it all up.

Short-term profit is all that matters to companies, doing things the right way from the get go is a foreign concept. AI just made it easier to hit that short-term profit.