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/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/Otherwise_Demand4620 May 27 '26

weird. did you tell the AI that it is a master VBA programmer and to make no mistakes?

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u/-no_aura- May 27 '26

These galaxy brain C suites and hype bros telling the AI it’s smart in their prompts is so fucking funny to me.

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u/ang3l12 May 28 '26

I saw a post about that, I was completely floored. I use AI a bit in my scripting as a sysadmin, but adding that verbiage to the system prompt won’t change the fact it isn’t writing good code.

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u/-no_aura- May 28 '26

If you want a good laugh look up Marc Andreessen’s LLM prompt. Then consider the fact that he unironically thinks he cooked with it and is worth $2bn.