Everybody's Lost Their Minds
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The author argues that AI has become a destructive mania, replacing genuine understanding with dependency and causing widespread societal harm.
A security engineer argues that AI is causing collective madness, eroding skills and ethics, while companies ignore harms like environmental destruction, IP theft, and CSAM generation. He criticizes the AI industry's 'Project Sisyphus' efforts, claiming vulnerability discovery is not the bottleneck-patching remains hard-and that resources spent on AI would be better used on basic security hygiene. He notes that AI des kills its users, making code bases opaque and debugging impossible. The essay was written in September 2026.
What commenters are saying
Commenters are split: some agree with the author's critique of AI hype and societal cycles of stupidity, others find the author himself too extreme, pointing out that LLMs produce genuinely useful work. One thread debates COVID lockdowns as a parallel case of collective overreaction vs. necessary public health intervention. A few commenters suggest the cycles are driven by consumerism and fear-mongering media.