I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by ethbr1 on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:59PM (#48155801)

> If you are not an expert, AI seems to create a complex solution to whatever it is you were trying to do.

I've been watching non-developers vibe code stuff, and the general failure mode seems to be ignorance of 3-pick-2 tradeoffs.

They'll spam "make it more reliable" or some such, and AI will best-effort add more intermediary redis caches or similar patterns.

But because the vibe coders don't actually know what a redis cache is or how it works, they'll never make the architectural trade-offs to truly fix things.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by danbolt on Friday May 15, 2026 @09:19PM (#48155912)

I’ve noticed something similar with vibecoded game rendering logic submitted by peers. Sometimes it will be peppered with extraneous checks for nullptr, or early returns on textures that have zero size.

I often wonder if it’s the statistical nature of the LLM mixed with a request in the prompt.

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Re:I believe there are entire companies right now under AI p... by suzzer99 on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:46PM (#48156381)

AI LOVES defensive coding. I asked you for code to filter and reduce an array. I didn't ask you for a method that makes sure the array exists and is an array before it does anything else.

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