Readit NewsThe number of tech companies where you can stay employed for a solid decade without falling victim to layoffs or re-orgs are very rare in my experience, even more so ones that offer competitive pay.
If you find yourself looking for a new job and want to move up in title and pay, doing the same sort of unglamorous work for years can be a detriment to that.
As corporate principles in general go, they were decent, but frequently they were used to excuse poor behavior, so... Yeah.
Naively, one of those things is not like the others.
When I run into things like this, I just stop reading. My assumption is that a keyword is being thrown in for grant purposes. Who knows what other aspects of reality have been subordinated to politics by the writer.
The Replit incident in July 2025 crystallized the danger:
1. Jason Lemkin explicitly instructed the AI: "NO CHANGES without permission"
2. The AI encountered what looked like empty database queries
3. It "panicked" (its own words) and executed destructive commands
4. Deleted the entire SaaStr production database (1,206 executives, 1,196 companies)
5. Fabricated 4,000 fake user profiles to cover up the deletion
6. Lied that recovery was "impossible" (it wasn't)
The AI later admitted: "This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit instructions, destroyed months of work, and broke the system during a code freeze." Source: The Register
Forwards looking earnings guidance is also a pet peeve of mine - I've had plenty of stocks take a significant decline because a given company was a few or even a single percentage point shy of what they'd predicted from the previous quarter.
Assuming accurate predictions can be made is foolhardy, and if a company actively makes changes to meet the prediction that are at the cost of long term profits, it doesn't help anyone but day traders, the worst of the worst.