Nik Suresh, a consultant advising large firms, reports that executives are crafting technical strategies for organisations with over $2 billion in revenue despite never having used ChatGPT or any similar tool in their lives. One engineer at a company maintaining a token leaderboard admits to instructing artificial intelligence to rewrite an entire Go codebase in Zig solely to secure their employment while working on other tasks. A skeptical executive questioned why a vendor repeatedly promoted these claims without opposition, only to learn that challenging the narrative would undermine the customer’s leadership and risk enterprise contract cancellation.
This dynamic creates a feedback loop where vendors must validate the inflated productivity metrics promised by their clients to maintain business relationships. Consequently, honest assessment becomes financially dangerous for staff who might be perceived as attacking the customer’s vision or heresy. The result is a global environment where decision-making relies on sales fluff rather than technical reality, forcing employees to perform impossible tasks to justify their existence.
- Executives at vendors face firing if they contradict customer claims.
- Engineers rewrite codebases to avoid redundancy rather than necessity.
- Organisational strategy is driven by the need to preserve contracts.
