Armin Ronacher • 1/18/2026

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

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The article explores the negative side effects of AI coding assistants, including degraded quality of pull requests, developer addiction, and parasocial relationships with AI. It discusses how this 'agent psychosis' impacts collaboration, maintainer burnout, and the sense of self for programmers, drawing a parallel to the daemons from 'His Dark Materials'.

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#software development #code quality #Maintainer Burnout
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