Developer Reality Check: Recovering from 'AI Psychosis' and Questioning the Hype
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-08-23
The author shares a personal journey of using AI and shifting perspectives:
- AGI Illusion: Between April and May, the author suffered from severe "AI psychosis," mistaking the highly realistic performance of LLMs for the arrival of AGI.
- Engineering Reality: While building custom podcast recording software and struggling with lip-sync issues, the author found models far less capable in solving specific engineering problems than they appeared in chat, confirming AGI is not here yet.
- Skepticism: The author suspects some foundational labs might be pretending to possess powerful models that cannot be released safely to sustain the hype.
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