AI psychosis: cycling between two mental states every single day ↑ after using coding agents: holy shit I'm omnipotent. I can build anything. I've never felt this powerful in my life. ↓ after scrolling twitter: holy shit I'm completely behind. everyone's ahead. the wave is moving and I'm going to get left.

All the tech companies are under some kind of AI psychosis. They keep talking about this junkware that didn't even exist four years ago, and that we lived perfectly well without, like it's God and humanity can't survive without it.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

interest in claude design has returned to the same levels as before the announcement - zero people gave a fuck whatsoever figma stock has recovered completely from the 4% drop it took when claude design was announced collective AI psychosis

Women who plead insanity are 50 percent more likely to be successful than men. A woman can murder her entire family then say she was depressed and the chances are high that she'll never spend a day in prison. This happens all the time. Andrea Yates drowned FIVE children in her bathtub and right now she's living in a comfortable, low security mental health facility. And she's only there because she wants to be. She's not an outlier, either. A woman was just found "not guilty by reason of insanity" a month ago after drowning her baby in a bathtub. The judge decided that she was suffering from temporary psychosis because of COVID or some such nonsense. Now Lindsay Clancy hopes to get the comfortable "mental health facility" treatment after strangling all of her children to death. And she may very well be successful. The darkest, most depraved manifestation of female privilege.