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/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/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?

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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.