They literally have forgotten as they’re just following orders from investors (public or private).

Before those orders were “get as many users as possible” as valuation is based on credibility of reaching TAM.

Now the orders are “just use AI as this will be necessary to stay relevant and avoid being displaced” in addition to of course “profitability now”

Perhaps what they've learned from training data is “must” often occurs in cases with bullshit red tape or other regulations. "You must read the terms and conditions before using this stuff," or something like that, which are actually best ignored.

Yes, and using it a justification to offshore/ layoff

> Senior engineers who say “I don’t know” aren’t showing weakness - they’re creating permission. When a leader admits uncertainty, it signals that the room is safe for others to do the same. The alternative is a culture where everyone pretends to understand and problems stay hidden until they explode.

It's interesting to contrast this with Sean's statement here www.seangoedecke.com/taking-a-position/

> At that point, you need to take a position, whether you feel particularly confident or not.

> If you don’t, you’re forcing people with less technical context than you to figure it out themselves

To square the circle, I think the lesson is hide uncertainty to higher-ups, but don't to peers/ other ICs.

Of course, the challenge is that often, unfortunately, both the manager and the other ICs are in the same meeting.

Probably this is one justification of one reason why I hate meetings that include managers.

In fact, on my team, all TODOs must have a bug in parentheses immediately afterwards to satisfy the linter. So not only not mutually exclusive, but the opposite.

So I guess broadly speaking there could be strategies involving attempting to influence governmental policy rather than by consumer choice.

Or more radically, trying to change the structure of the government in general such that the above influences actually are more tractable for the common person.

For example, rising interest rates I'm sure also independently contributed. I would be interested to if anyone has gotten a sense of exactly how much this has contributed.

and that probably to some extent all involved (depending on how delusional they are) know that it's simply an excuse to do layoffs (replaced by offshoring) by artificially so-called raising the bar to what is unrealistic for most people

* well, there's https://osm.rrze.fau.de/testhd.html , but that has no search.