The AI burn out: How and why is brain fry entering the lexicon of AI coders

Running a startup could throw your schedule into chaos. Yet, Kalyan Sivasailam, founder, 5C Network, an AI-based radiology platform, made it home by 10 pm most of the days and could tell himself “Done for the day.”

But that is no longer the case. After coming home, he now fires up his computer; multiple projects that he works on – from AI interview platform for radiologists to building AI agentic workflow for his startup – come alive in the dead of night. Sivasailam runs five Claude Code instances, one Google Antigravity and one OpenAI’s Codex. “There is so much code being generated that you can easily get lost in building and verifying them,” he told ET.