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I am somewhat worried that this is the moment AI psychosis has come for programmers.
by roywiggins 8mo ago
I am somewhat worried that this is the moment AI psychosis has come for programmers.
- turnsout 8mo agoYeah… I'm using Claude Code almost all day every day, but it still 100% requires my judgment. If another AI like OpenClaw was just giving the thumbs up to whatever CC was doing, it would not end well (for my projects anyway).
- torben-friis 8mo agoAdd to that worry the suspicion that half this push is just marketing stunts by AI companies. (Not necessarily this specific post).
- causal 8mo agoYes. Programmers might be especially susceptible precisely because our advanced understanding makes us think we cannot be easily fooled. But we are also easier to impress: only we understand how difficult it is to one-shot code a working app. AI psychosis sets in when AI captures enough of your perception to alter your reality. Programmers might be "smarter", but we give AI a bigger set of tools to capture our perception with. And then there's the fact that we want to be fooled.
- roywiggins 8mo agoWe are also used to prioritizing "flow states" as part of our engagement with technology, and these tools seem to be flow-state inducers. Also prone to following hype, used to typing words into computers to get results, etc...
- causal 8mo ago"Flow-state inducers" is interesting, and I think you're onto something. There's something so satisfying about getting working code so easily, feeling like you're jumping from one solution to the next.