The Sycophancy Trap: How AI Is Fueling a War Between Managers and Engineers in Silicon Valley
When your AI assistant tells you you’re a genius, you might want to worry. There’s a video making the rounds on X right now. In it, @atmoio tears apart how AI chatbots — Claude in particular — are turning tech CEOs into delusional yes-men magnets. The target? Gary Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, who recently published gstack on GitHub: a collection of markdown files with Claude Code prompts that role-play an entire engineering team. CEO, Engineering Manager, QA, DevOps — all played by one LLM. ...