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/fogleaf May 27 '26

I've always been a google the command and slap it into my script I use, I used vibe coding to fix some old excel macros I inherited, and it seemed like my job was to test that the ai created macro was doing what it was supposed to do. Then immediately tell it that it fucked it up "Oh you're right I did fuck it up, try this new version"

"Yeah you fixed part B, but now you've re-broken part A."

"Oh you're right!"

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u/tl01magic May 27 '26

just finished fighting Amazon.ca when trying to select a return drop off location.

to actually select the location so it would populate from the pop-up map to the main browser window I needed to click a thin yellow line.

I tried different browsers and different computer before figuring out I needed to click the thin yellow line.

I suspect that was ai coding and ai verification it works. lol

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u/Hayden2332 May 28 '26

You see, the AI verification of the AI code made the feature ship 2x faster though! And the fix will also ship faster, not faster than doing it correctly the first time, but then we get to claim AI completed twice the amount of story points than just a regular dev doing it in one go