The further up the ladder you go the more importance is placed on numbers and metrics. Every meeting and every mandatory training is either about leadership decisions or some kind of numbers, be it profit, efficiency, budget or accidents. As a team lead you can still see the individuals you work with, but past that with 100+ people under you, even their health and safety gets reduced to numbers on a sheet.

It gets so ingrained in your brain that its nearly impossible to forget once you reach a point high enough where the shackles loosen a bit.

That doesn’t really excuse anyone from being an out of touch asshole though. You can still see people as people instead of numbers, it just takes more effort to do so.

What’s worse is that half the time people actively tried to tell vendors they got hit with a lawsuit in return. It usually doesn’t stick, but the sheer fact that you have to defend yourself in court cause you tried to help is nuts.

Exactly, just think about all the networking you can do with teams so we all can grow together as one big family.

Depends in what exactly you mean with AI here. AI as a tech is going to stay, Pandoras box is open and there is no going back now.

The AI companies tho, the actual subject of this post, are going to crash and burn eventually. Not all at the same time and maybe not every single one, but a good portion of them will go down the drain .