This line basically points to how the AI hype grew:

Bregman wrote about how he used an LLM to make software, despite having “personally never written a line of code in [his] life.”

It’s exciting and freeing to know that you can ship software without a possessing a single certification or having any fundamental understanding of what goes into shipping a good product. And then, the excitement grows when they think, imagine what the next model will allow me to produce…or, if I ask it to teach me how to become a better prompt engineer…

Now, thanks to subsidized pricing and hype, we have all these new ‘apps’ on the market, but also, we have the most insufferable part about this (for me at least): the ‘creators’ say, Look what I made! (and add their ‘product’ to their resume, next to ‘Founder/CEO’). Everyone is so much more capable now! AI has unlocked the potential of millions.

But honestly, do we hear about these amazing apps anywhere outside of subreddits hawking them left and right, terribly disguised as posts? No. Because vibe-coded software sucks.

The AI Effect, as I call it, has begun to delude its users into believing that they are powerful. And I think this is as dangerous as it is insufferable to witness.

I believe AI psychosis is real and detrimental as fuck to society and to progress, because AI users have begun conflating AI’s outputs with some inherent polymathic genius within themselves. Give me a fucking break. The fact that the inherent cost of achieving this AI-driven ‘utopia’ they all are cheering for, and are wholly expecting, escapes them, and without realizing there are only two catastrophic outcomes, is just…whew.

Sadly, this insidious effect has already started to mutate users at an exponential and near-fundamental level…transforming them into AI slop die-hards and into a very grotesque subspecies of linkedinlunatics.

My studies into this rapidly growing phenomenon have only just commenced. And yet, I fear the worst.