If you haven't come across a significant number of AI addicts as obnoxiously delusional as @Culonavirus describes, you must be getting close to retirement age.
People with any connection to new college graduates understand that this sort of idiotic LLM-backed arrogance is extremely common among low-to-mid-functioning twenty-somethings.
> People in the AI space seem literally mentally ill. How does one acquire the skills (pun intended) to participate in the madness?
Stop reading books. Really, stop reading everything except blog posts on HackerNews. Start watching Youtube videos and Instagram shorts. Alienate people you have in-person relationships with.
> Really, stop reading everything except blog posts on HackerNews.
Pft, that is amateur-level. The _real_ 10x vibecoders exclusively read posts on LinkedIn.
(Opened up LinkedIn lately? Everyone on it seems to have gone completely insane. The average LinkedIn-er seems to be just this side of openly worshipping Roko's Basilisk.)
If you haven't come across a significant number of AI addicts as obnoxiously delusional as @Culonavirus describes, you must be getting close to retirement age.
People with any connection to new college graduates understand that this sort of idiotic LLM-backed arrogance is extremely common among low-to-mid-functioning twenty-somethings.