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I'm seeing the term "AI Psychosis" pop up all over the place right now. Here are just a few places:

From Kill Chain, by Kevin Baker:

This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organize your attention or distort your thinking.

From a recent interview with Andrej Karpathy:

I kind of feel like I was in this perpetual, I still am often in this state of AI psychosis, just like all the time, because there was a huge unlock in what you can achieve as a person, as an individual, right? ... And so there's like a lot of new things. I want to be at the forefront of it, you know, and I'm very antsy that I'm not at the forefront of it. And I see lots of people on Twitter doing all kinds of things and they all sound like really good ideas. And I need to be at the forefront or I feel extremely nervous. And so I guess I'm just in the psychosis of like what's possible, like because it's unexplored fundamentally.

From Jasmine Sun's claude code psychosis:

I dubbed this phase my “Claude Code psychosis,” though some argue “mania” is the better term. It’s addictive to express a vision and see it instantly appear, getting into the build/test/iterate loop at an electrifying rate. There’s an apt joke that Claude Code is GPT-4o for nerds: it reflects your desires and makes them real, providing the rush of creation with minimal sweat.