Karpathy says he hasn't written a line of code since December and is in "perpetual AI psychosis." How many Claude Code users feel the same?

LLMs 1.5K points 408 comments 2 months ago

Just listened to his new No Priors episode. He describes going from 80% writing his own code to 0%, spending 16 hours a day directing agents, and being in a constant state of "AI psychosis" because the possibilities feel infinite. Garry Tan calls it "cyber psychosis" — sleeping 4 hours because he can't stop building with Claude Code. I've seen similar vibes in this sub — people running multiple Claude Code sessions in parallel, hitting the rate limit daily, feeling like idle tokens are wasted tokens. Is this just a handful of high-profile people, or is "AI psychosis" way more common among Claude Code users than we think?

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