alt Hacker News> Or you answer to somebody else, which is how perpetually cannabilizing next quarters numbers to appease short term shareholders becomes more important than cost savings and using your labor pool time to solve actual problems.
If CEOs were actually wrecking their companies in order to get a fake short term boost, they'd be shortly out of business. If a person was sure a CEO was doing that, they'd be making money shorting the stock.
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Well - the premise is that they will indeed shortly be out of business, because their increasingly slop-coded infra will collapse within the next year or so.
Or if it doesn't, token inflation will kill their profitability.
A lot of people are putting big money on both sides of those predictions, and they can't all be wrong.
Github? Windows? Ibm? Intel? Boeing?