"Anthropic and OpenAI salespeople walk in like heroes, get a contract, and leave to literally never be seen again." There's an adage in tech: nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Habib proposes an update: "People should be getting f***ing fired," she says. "That's the best way to infuse some sanity into this market."
In reality, the self making the choices at a point in time and the self living with their consequences across the timeline of life, the self avowing the promises and the self keeping or breaking them, are never the same person. To know this about oneself is the beginning of mercy.
What's framed as security often blurs into personal score-settling, with allegations of profiling, intimidation, and overreach extending beyond the arena itself.