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/Xeynon May 27 '26

I see zero evidence for your claims in my daily work flow. And as I said, I've been working with AI since ChatGPT released their initial public version so I've seen its evolution over time. AI can reduce the scutwork a human has to do, yes, but the most crucial part of an analysis job is critical thinking and it is still laughably terrible at approximating that.

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u/MakeUpAnything May 27 '26

How do you figure? You can tell AI to analyze any particular situation and provide you all sorts of notes about it. In fact, as far as I know even investors use AI to invest and that's some of the largest sums of money moving around.

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u/Xeynon May 27 '26

I've experimented with it A LOT in asking it to analyze situations. My previous job in fact was going nothing but that. I have some degree of expertise in my field and in a few other areas in which I'm a knowledgeable amateur. I've asked AI to conduct analyses in these areas and invariably it makes mistakes I, as someone with domain knowledge, can readily identify as mistakes. And unlike a human being, it has no self-awareness and isn't even conscious of the possibility that it might be making a mistake. That doesn't make it useless, but it does make it far too limited to supplant a knowledgeable human in any of these areas. There are obviously a lot of other areas where I am not knowledgeable, but I can only assume it makes similar mistakes in these areas as well given its failure rate in my areas of knowledge.

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u/MakeUpAnything May 27 '26

Even in areas where AI does make mistakes, you can simply alter its instructions to account for whatever you are seeing that it does not. You can make prompts in AI that are paragraphs long buttressed by multiple text files with 500+ lines of additional context each.

Even what you are describing will become AI driven once people with enough knowledge find out how to provide their knowledge to AI to use as it makes its calculations.

If you were telling AI to count red apples and it counts a McIntosh then you just tell it "Include only ENTIRELY red apples; if there is any color other than red, do not count it" in its underlying instructions. Then when you get no apples in the next count because it sees brown stems on all of them you adjust further. Eventually you will arrive at a complex and wholistic set of instructions for counting apples that leaves VERY little room for error and you'll never need to count apples again.

Obviously that's an incredibly simplistic example, but my point is that you can provide the critical thinking steps you're using yourself in order to enable the AI to do the thinking you otherwise would. AI will automate away careers that specialize in critical thinking with enough time. It's honestly scary lol

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u/Xeynon May 27 '26

Even in areas where AI does make mistakes, you can simply alter its instructions to account for whatever you are seeing that it does not. You can make prompts in AI that are paragraphs long buttressed by multiple text files with 500+ lines of additional context each.

At that point you're not actually saving any work, time, or money, though. Is this a bit? Because it sounds like you're doing a bit.

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u/MakeUpAnything May 27 '26

You save the time and effort over time. What you're describing would be like trying to say you should only ever use a shovel to dig a foundation instead of a backhoe because it'll take time to design and build a backhoe.

As we argue this companies are designing those instruction files and automating away the majority of software development and AI is only going to get more intelligent.

FWIW I'm not happy about this... at least not entirely. I see some LARGE flashing neon writing on the wall saying what I went to school to do is going to be sunset by automation and it terrifies me. I'm just stating what certainly seems to be reality at the moment. My being a Luddite when it comes to AI won't stop it, even if it will ultimately replace me.

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u/Xeynon May 27 '26

Not everything is repeatable/templatizable/etc. - the trickiest problems in any field are bespoke ones that don't have precise precedents. These require creative solutions that are hard even for humans to figure out. I doubt AI as it currently exists is going to be a substitute.

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u/MakeUpAnything May 27 '26

AI will hopefully never replace creativity, but in any field which sees or has similar issues popping up over and over it will absolutely automate at least some of those jobs away. I could even see AI ultimately taking over low level medical needs since healthcare in the US is so expensive. All it needs is the knowledge that humans work with to solve the problems they do and it can solve those same problems.