The issue is, executives believe we have to push features first or else some mysterious competition runs us into the ground. Or sometimes even that saving on security will give them money.

And since these people have the power, it's hard to avoid them.

The norm is vast business where tech is ean enabler, not the actual thing itself.

It's just the get rich quick story of VC path that pulled a certain type of introverted high iq personality to it.

AI is now showing that emperor has no clothes.

As I grow older (I'm not that old), the more I think I'm an idiot by not playing "the game", but I just can't make myself do it. Maybe because deep down I believe in at least karma, if not some afterlife.

I found a fake quote from Dostoyevsky yesterday which said (I'm paraphrasing):

"Don't let the corruption of others be an excuse for your own."

I know it is a fake quote, but still I think that is a worldview to try to strive to. Seeing people like the author of the article supporting a similar point makes me a bit happier and hopeful that the big AI "revolution" won't make my life miserable.

It's fine if you want to check out of your job and make it a hobby, you'll be happier. But (I hate to say it) if you take on this mentality you won't have a job or a career for long in this space.

The money goes to people who move fast and do not care about anything in the way, especially moving slow and fixing things. That's why everything sucks. Every day this becomes more true when a competitor or peer with a louder mouthpiece can slop together something that slurps up the money from whatever you're offering. If you don't want this to happen, you are back to playing the game.

Would love to live in a world with more counterexamples, but this post is mostly advocating for quitting your job or exiting the space. Not everyone can afford to do that.

I'll find/make a suitable position before I continue moving fast and breaking things.