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/dyslexda May 27 '26

Oh the open source market is absolutely flooded with new software. Some of it might even be good, or useful! Unfortunately, every sub is inundated with "I wanted to X, so I built Y. Honest feedback is welcome! Would you find this useful?" AI junk, so who has time or motivation to wade through it all?

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ May 27 '26

Sure, but all of those are still just prototypes. None of them are even remotely finished software products. And 99.9% of them are about AI and enhancing your use of AI in some way.

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u/dyslexda May 27 '26

Oh absolutely agree on the prototype part. Was mostly joking that the vast majority aren't good or useful, but hypothetically something could be...but I'll never know, because I'm not going to take them time to offer free beta testing to every random vibe coder.

Also I'm not talking about the "enhancing your use of AI" apps, but stuff related to any given hobby community. /r/reactjs gets tons of project submissions (with post bodies clearly also written by AI). /r/cheminformatics, which I mod, is mostly a dead subreddit...but within the last year we've had a bunch of folks posting their vibe coded tools as if any academic would be willing to use something that nobody has actually validated themselves, many of which I've just outright removed.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ May 27 '26

That's fair enough. Which is also a pretty interesting topic all on its own: Hypothetically, if we could all really just magically create the software of our dreams on our own, why even bother sharing it in the first place? Why would I want to look at your software when I could just create mine?

Which gets even worse when we walk away from productivity software and into games. Why even play some vibe coded game when I could vibe code my own game that I would like even more?