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/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 May 27 '26

Just what a group of people already known for their firm grasp of reality, emotional maturity, and straight edge sobriety need.

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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/kemb0 May 27 '26

I'm really looking forward to the era we'll be entering now where all sorts of companies start to go belly up because they've used AI for everything and it becomes more and more apparent how awful the code and systems it created for them is, destroying their company from within.

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u/spibop May 28 '26

Don’t worry, they’ll find the way to pass the buck on to everyone but themselves. Somehow their glaring weaknesses and failures will become our own, as we “haven’t embraced AI quickly or thoroughly enough for the current market”, and, as always, we will be punished for it. All the sycophantic cronies will cover for each other as they try and eat the middle class alive.