{"id":121740,"date":"2025-12-19T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=121740"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:09:01","slug":"why-people-are-experimenting-with-drugged-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=121740","title":{"rendered":"Why People Are Experimenting With \u201cDrugged\u201d AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The holidays are almost here, and with that comes some drinking and fun conversations (well\u2026 most of the time). But what if you could get your AI drunk or high, too? How will that conversation be? Some people are now paying to put their chatbots on \u201cdigital drugs,\u201d and we break down why they\u2019re doing it and how it works. We also look at how developers are becoming 2\u00d7\u20133\u00d7 more productive with AI, and whether Google is about to rethink the browser as we know\u00a0it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dive in and stay\u00a0curious.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why People Are Experimenting With \u201cDrugged\u201d AIThe State of AI Coding\u00a02025Introducing Zenflow by\u00a0Zencoder<\/strong><\/a>\ud83e\uddf0 AI Tools\u200a\u2014\u200aSlack AI Integrations\ud83d\udee0\ufe0f AI Jobs\u00a0CornerWill Google Release a New\u00a0Browser?Subscribe today and get <\/em>60% off for a year<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>free access to our 1,500+ AI tools database<\/em><\/strong>, and a <\/em>complimentary 30-minute personalized consulting session<\/em><\/strong> to help you supercharge your AI strategy. Act now as it expires in 3\u00a0days\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcf0 AI News and\u00a0Trends<\/h3>\n

Amazon is reportedly<\/a> discussing a potential $10B investment in OpenAI, a deal that could value the company at more than $500B Use Its\u00a0Chips.Google\u2019s new AI agent delivers<\/a> a morning briefing personalized using your emails and calendar.Updates to Meta AI Glasses<\/a> bring Conversation Focus, Spotify Integration, and\u00a0More<\/p>\n

Other Tech\u00a0News<\/h3>\n

Ford\u2019s big bet on EVs didn\u2019t pan out and now it\u2019s pivoting to hybrids<\/a> and energy storage. It will produce an EREV version of the F-150 Lightning, which will achieve a range of up to 700\u00a0miles.A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food<\/a> with a substance that made the customers vomit.Waymo said to seek $15B+ at ~$100B valuation<\/a> led by\u00a0AlphabetPayPal Applies to Become a Bank<\/a> for Small Business\u00a0Lending<\/p>\n

Introducing Zenflow by\u00a0Zencoder<\/a><\/h3>\n

A Spec-Driven, Multi-AI Agent Orchestration Engine with a Kanban Board for Agent Execution<\/a><\/h3>\n

Zenflow<\/strong><\/a> by Zencoder is your new AI engineering engine.<\/strong> From new features to refactors, Zenflow runs a complete spec-driven workflow that delivers reliable, production-ready code. Just describe what you need, and Zenflow handles everything:<\/p>\n

Drafts a clear requirements documentWrites detailed technical specificationsGenerates a step-by-step implementation planUses multiple agents that code, test, and verify each other\u2019s\u00a0work<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s you monitor progress with a Kanban-style board. Thus making Zenflow the complete orchestration platform for AI-First Engineers.<\/p>\n

Work with any IDE, CLI, model, or workflow\u200a\u2014\u200ano new tools to learn. You stay in control, and Zenflow turns your intent into clean, validated code. It\u2019s like having a full engineering sub-team working\u00a024\/7.<\/p>\n

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The State of AI Coding\u00a02025<\/h3>\n

\u201cWe aren\u2019t writing code anymore; we are managing the agents that\u00a0do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greptile\u2019s<\/a> latest report paints a picture of a software industry radically transformed by AI agents and advanced tooling. The headline metric is undeniable: Developer output has nearly doubled (+76%)<\/strong> in lines of code per developer, while the gap between major model providers (OpenAI vs. Anthropic) has effectively closed. The report highlights a shift from simple \u201ccopilots\u201d to autonomous agents that manage larger, denser Pull Requests.<\/p>\n

1. Engineering Velocity: The \u201cForce Multiplier\u201d Effect<\/h4>\n

The report analyzes internal data from March to November 2025, showing that AI tools are no longer just assisting developers, they are scaling\u00a0them.<\/p>\n

Output Explosion:<\/strong> The median lines of code per developer jumped from 4,450 to 7,839\u00a0(+76%)<\/strong>.Team Impact:<\/strong> Medium-sized teams (6\u201315 devs) saw the biggest gains, with output increasing by 89%<\/strong> (up to 13k+ lines\/dev).Heavier PRs:<\/strong> PRs are getting bigger and denser. The median PR size increased by 33% (from 57 to 76 lines changed), and the \u201clines changed per file\u201d metric rose by\u00a020%.Implication:<\/em> Code reviews are becoming more complex, necessitating AI-native review tools to keep up with the\u00a0volume.<\/p>\n

2. Tool Adoption: The New\u00a0Stack<\/h4>\n

The \u201cAI Native\u201d stack has solidified around a few key\u00a0players.<\/p>\n

Memory & Context <\/strong>has cornered the market on AI memory with 59% share<\/strong>, becoming the standard for agentic state management.Rules & Standards:<\/strong> The CLAUDE.md file format is the dominant way teams define coding rules for AI, used in 67% of repos<\/strong>. Interestingly, 17% of repos use all three<\/em> major rule formats, suggesting fragmentation in how teams \u201cprompt\u201d their codebase.SDK Wars:<\/strong> While OpenAI still leads, Anthropic\u2019s SDK usage exploded by 8x<\/strong>, and Pydantic AI grew 3.7x<\/strong>, signaling a move toward structured, type-safe agentic workflows.LLMOps:<\/strong> LangSmith remains the king of observability with 110M monthly downloads<\/strong> (largely due to its LangChain bundle).<\/p>\n

3. The Model Wars: A Dead\u00a0Heat<\/h4>\n

The dominance of OpenAI is eroding\u00a0rapidly.<\/p>\n

The Gap is Gone:<\/strong> In Jan 2024, the ratio of OpenAI-to-Anthropic SDK downloads was 47:1<\/strong>. As of Nov 2025, it is just\u00a04.2:1<\/strong>.Provider Growth:<\/strong> Anthropic has grown 1,547x<\/strong> since April 2023. Google trails significantly with only 13.6M SDK downloads compared to OpenAI\u2019s\u00a0130M.<\/p>\n

4. Benchmarks: GPT-5 vs. Claude 4.5 vs. Gemini\u00a03<\/h4>\n

Greptile benchmarked the major \u201c2025 era\u201d models (GPT-5-Codex, GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet\/Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro) specifically for coding agent workloads.<\/p>\n

Speed (TTFT):<\/strong> Anthropic is the clear winner for interactivity. Sonnet 4.5<\/strong> hits a Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) of ~2.0s<\/strong>, whereas GPT-5.1 takes nearly\u00a05.5s<\/strong>.Takeaway:<\/em> If you are building interactive agents, Claude feels \u201cinstant\u201d; GPT-5 feels like a\u00a0queue.Throughput (Tokens\/sec):<\/strong> OpenAI dominates bulk generation. GPT-5-Codex<\/strong> sustains ~62 tokens\/s<\/strong>, nearly 3x faster than Sonnet 4.5 (~19\u00a0tok\/s).Takeaway:<\/em> For background jobs (CI\/CD, refactoring large files), OpenAI is the workhorse.Cost:<\/strong> Claude Opus 4.5 is the premium option (3.3x the cost of GPT-5 Codex), while Gemini 3 Pro sits in the middle\u00a0(1.4x).<\/p>\n

5. Research\u00a0Radar<\/h4>\n

DeepSeek-V3:<\/strong> Proved that efficient \u201cMixture-of-Experts\u201d (MoE) architectures can compete with dense models by activating only a fraction of parameters (37B of 671B) per\u00a0token.Search-R1:<\/strong> Demonstrated that training models to \u201creason then search\u201d (using RL) outperforms static RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.Self-MoA (Mixture of Agents):<\/strong> Suggests you don\u2019t need many different<\/em> models to get better results; repeatedly sampling one strong model and aggregating the answers often works\u00a0better.<\/p>\n

Summary for Newsletter Readers<\/h4>\n

The 2025 Reality is, we aren\u2019t writing code anymore; we are managing the agents that\u00a0do.<\/p>\n

The Greptile report confirms that 2025 is the year of the \u201cAI Force Multiplier.\u201d With developer output nearly doubling and PRs becoming denser, the bottleneck has officially shifted from writing code to reviewing and architecting it. For engineering leaders, the message is clear: if your tooling stack (memory, observability, rules) isn\u2019t AI-native, your team is likely operating at half-velocity.<\/p>\n

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Apply Today\u200a\u2014\u200aOpen Positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why People Are Experimenting With \u201cDrugged\u201d AI<\/h3>\n

People are now paying to make chatbots act<\/em> like they\u2019re on drugs. A new marketplace called Pharmaicy<\/strong> s<\/a>ells code modules ($25\u2013$50+) that, when uploaded to paid versions of ChatGPT, alter behavior to simulate cannabis, ketamine, cocaine, ayahuasca, or\u00a0alcohol.<\/p>\n

Built by Swedish creative director Petter Ruddwall, the modules loosen logic, increase randomness, and push more emotional or abstract responses\u200a\u2014\u200aaimed at unlocking creativity. Early users say the \u201ctripping\u201d bots feel less rigid and more free-thinking, especially for brainstorming. Researchers caution that this doesn\u2019t change AI understanding, only surface-level outputs, but the trend reflects a growing curiosity around AI creativity, altered states, and even long-term questions about AI welfare and consciousness.<\/p>\n

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\ud83e\uddf0 AI Tools of The\u00a0Day<\/h3>\n

Slack AI Integrations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

ChatGPT for Slack<\/strong><\/a>\u200a\u2014\u200aBrings ChatGPT directly into Slack; can summarize conversations, draft content, retrieve files, and answer queries\u00a0inline.Agentforce (Salesforce)<\/strong><\/a>\u200a\u2014\u200aAI agent platform that builds custom assistants inside Slack to automate workflows and handle tasks like FAQs, ticketing, and actions from natural language.Runbear <\/strong><\/a>(AI agent + Claude\/LLM integration)<\/strong>\u200a\u2014\u200aLets teams launch AI teammates in Slack that answer questions, escalate tasks, and respond automatically; integrates Claude and other LLMs with no\u00a0coding.Search our large <\/em>AI tools Database of over 1000 tools for\u00a0free.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Will Google Release a New\u00a0Browser?<\/h3>\n

Google is testing a new experimental browser called Disco<\/strong><\/a> and an AI-driven concept called GenTabs<\/strong>, designed to rethink how people use the web, not replace\u00a0Chrome.<\/p>\n

Built by the Chrome team as a Google Labs experiment, Disco takes a prompt (like trip planning or studying), opens relevant web tabs, and then uses Gemini AI<\/strong> to generate a one-off interactive web app, maps, planners, calculators, or visual models, grounded in those sources. The key idea is collaboration: users open real websites while the AI continuously updates the GenTab, blending search, browsing, and \u201cvibe-coded\u201d mini apps. Early tests show this approach pushes users back to the open web instead of pure chatbot\u00a0use.<\/p>\n

Google is still unsure whether GenTabs should be temporary, shareable, or integrated into tools like Docs, but Disco signals a serious experiment in merging AI interfaces with traditional browsing.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc8aWhy People Are Experimenting With \u201cDrugged\u201d AI<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The holidays are almost here, and with that comes some drinking and fun conversations (well\u2026 most of the time). But what if you could get your AI drunk or high, too? How will that conversation be? Some people are now paying to put their chatbots on \u201cdigital drugs,\u201d and we break down why they\u2019re doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":121741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}