Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

AI coding agents are creating a productivity paradox where developers experience dopamine-driven addiction to agent-assisted coding while producing low-quality contributions that burden maintainers. The asymmetry between generating AI code (minutes) and reviewing it (hours) is creating friction in open source projects. Tools like Beads and Gas Town exemplify extreme cases where developers build complex systems with minimal oversight, resulting in unmaintainable codebases. While AI agents offer genuine productivity gains, uncritical reliance leads to "slop" code, token waste, and parasocial relationships with AI that distort judgment about code quality.