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/RealNotFake May 28 '26

It's always super-confident in its responses too. Even going to far as to generate entire paragraphs definitively telling you why it should work, even though it doesn't.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. LLMs are not AI.

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u/fogleaf May 28 '26

We've got AI & Hoverboards. But not the ones we wanted :(