AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with it about them. I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. – Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame Over the past year, I’ve run point on all of our company’s sales, led the technical components of all but two of our engagements, and over the lifetime of this blog have had something like 300 catchups with professionals from around the world. This has ranged from people on the ground in niche service industries to executives at Fortune 500 companies1. Because of this, I've had a front-row view to our collective institutions across both the private and public sector undergoing breath-taking mass psychosis. This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent on…