Re:Passing DBs Through Continuations
by tenwz1 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:01AM
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Long before AI psychosis, there was FP psychosis, clinically defined as the intense psychological response to understanding functional programming concepts like recursion, higher order functions, monads, or in this case, continuation passing style.
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CPS was also the OG "AI psychosis" when it appeared in Sussman and Steele's AI Memo #349: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scheme:_An_Interpreter_for_Ex...
At least FP psychosis leaves you more educated and with more tools in your box.
Not sure what the AI one gives you at a personal level.
As a happy sufferer from FP psychosis, I can tell you that LLMs can be a fantastic tool for learning if you choose to use them that way.
You're not describing AI psychosis tho.
Meh. The term "psychosis" is a deliberate troll. If "FP psychosis" is understanding that imperative programming is a ridiculously primitive misunderstanding of computation that tends to discount the time dimension, it implies that "AI psychosis" is a similarly biased, nonsensical take that only matches the incorrectly perceived reality of the people using the term.
As far as I'm concerned, it's all just Luddites v2.0.
A lobotomy? I've witnessed several individuals who were entirely dependent on Claude for any technical issue.