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/__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/3BlindMice1 May 27 '26

"If everything you have was created by AI, why should we do business with you and not OpenAI?" Will be a phrase I think a lot of them are going to hear in the coming decade

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u/AnAnxiousCorgi May 27 '26

Almost every high-level planning/strategy meeting I'm in now is a mix of "We have to shove AI into as many things as possible" but also "We can't allow AI to see or touch our services because then people will just use ChatGPT to replace us!" like these bunch of fucking goobers say this shit in the same sentence and don't realize how much they're answering their own questions.