>Reading this while working for a division that pivoted to provide interfaces for agentic workflows, only to discover that only ten users had ever touched the products we made for agents, only to pivot again to support for agentic workflows, which has a lot of competition because every company has to do something agentic now and there's only like four things you can do in that space, is bracing.

>– An editor of this essay

The most popular form of AI psychosis in a nutshell, yea. "AI will understand this for us, so we can be groundbreaking and get rich if we just try" is only possible to believe when you have no idea what you or the rest of your field is doing, and have only attempted to learn about it from "AI", which has spent a lot of your money convincing you that you're brilliant and revolutionary.

It's exactly like surrounding yourself with relentless ego-boosting yes-men. You lose touch with reality. Just take a brief look at any super-wealthy person, they're obviously insane but everyone around them thrives on convincing them that they're not.

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>For the latter customer-facing applications, I have rarely had a pleasant experience as a consumer, with perhaps the exception of live transcription during medical appointments...

These have been abject failures, personally. They've made major mistakes in summaries, and added non-existent symptoms multiple times. Medical transcription seems an especially dangerous place to put them.