[causal]

Yes. Programmers might be especially susceptible precisely because our advanced understanding makes us think we cannot be easily fooled.

But we are also easier to impress: only we understand how difficult it is to one-shot code a working app.

AI psychosis sets in when AI captures enough of your perception to alter your reality. Programmers might be "smarter", but we give AI a bigger set of tools to capture our perception with.

And then there's the fact that we want to be fooled.

[roywiggins]

We are also used to prioritizing "flow states" as part of our engagement with technology, and these tools seem to be flow-state inducers. Also prone to following hype, used to typing words into computers to get results, etc...

[causal]

"Flow-state inducers" is interesting, and I think you're onto something. There's something so satisfying about getting working code so easily, feeling like you're jumping from one solution to the next.