--- title: Karpathy says developers have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone... description: Andrej Karpathy's concept of 'AI Psychosis' — the perception gap between heavy AI users and casual ones — is examined through the lens of why developers feel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/karpathy-says-developers-have-ai-psychosis-everyone-else-is-next--hu6ralitc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Karpathy says developers have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone else is next. | daily.dev og:description: Andrej Karpathy's concept of 'AI Psychosis' — the perception gap between heavy AI users and casual ones — is examined through the lens of why developers feel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/karpathy-says-developers-have-ai-psychosis-everyone-else-is-next--hu6ralitc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hU6rAlitc.png og:image:alt: Karpathy says developers have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone else is next. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Karpathy says developers have ‘AI Psychosis.’ Everyone else is next. **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Andrej Karpathy's concept of 'AI Psychosis' — the perception gap between heavy AI users and casual ones — is examined through the lens of why developers feel AI's impact first. The argument: developers sit at the intersection of AI capability, AI fluency, and domain expertise, making them the preview of what's coming for every other industry. Supporting evidence includes Anthropic's Claude Cowork moving to enterprise GA, a Gallup study showing Gen Z's growing anger toward AI, Goldman Sachs estimates of 16,000 net U.S. jobs eliminated monthly by AI, Anthropic's Claude Mythos model autonomously finding zero-day vulnerabilities across major OSes and browsers, and Meta's internal 'Claudeonomics' leaderboard tracking 60 trillion tokens consumed by 85,000 employees in 30 days. The throughline: AI capability improvements in technical domains cascade into adjacent fields, and the workforce disruption developers are experiencing now will spread broadly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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