2026-05-16 / Signal #1
Companies (and builders) under "AI psychosis
“Entire companies are having a collective psychotic break with AI—and you can’t even talk to them about it.”
Why It Matters
Concrete diagnosis of real-world builder/company behavior—reorganizing roadmaps, decisions, and culture around unproven AI magic before it’s ready, creating parallel delusions that erode rational institutions and human judgment at work. Mischievous, darkly funny call-out with future-shock on identity ("are we still the ones building?").
Evidence
Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh) viral X post + massive HN thread (1476 pts, ~16h old at scan time): "I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it." Ongoing X discussion and podcast pickup.
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Source Trail
Daily scan: 2026-05-16