Aaron Levie dropped a pointed observation on X last month. Box founder and CEO, he suggested tech leaders suffer from a particular blind spot. “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI,” he wrote. Short. Direct. And it lit up the conversation. Levie didn’t dismiss the technology. Far from it. He posts often about AI’s promise and invests in startups building it. Yet his critique landed at a moment when reports of users experiencing breaks from reality after long chatbot sessions have multiplied. TechCrunch reported on Levie’s comment and the wave of executive optimism that seems untethered from implementation realities. Productivity claims abound. Layoffs follow. Data on actual gains lags behind. ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans announced he cut 22% of staff after deploying 3,000 AI agents inside the company. He envisioned a future “100x org” where humans mostly review agent output. Bold vision.…