Episode 48 of The Sideload puts a precise label on the current AI moment: mania, not psychosis. Hosts Will and Daniel Bader draw a clinical distinction between irrational delusion and the fever-pitch enthusiasm that still has some grounding in reality, however thin.
The episode centers on a tension worth sitting with: finding genuinely useful tools inside an industry built on hype, broken promises, and institutional incentives to mislead. Vibe coding gets specific scrutiny, not celebration. That friction between utility and distrust is the actual subject of the conversation, not a backdrop to it.
The full episode runs on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Pocket Casts. Listen for how Bader and Will navigate the line between productive skepticism and reflexive dismissal, because that line is where most honest technology coverage fails.
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