An executive at a company with over $2 billion in revenue produced a complete AI-centered technical strategy without ever having used ChatGPT or any AI tool. Consultant Nik Suresh documents this and other cases of AI mania corrupting enterprise decision-making at the largest companies in the world.
The dysfunction runs deeper than ignorance at the top. Suresh reports engineers gaming internal token leaderboards by cloning Go repositories and telling AI to rewrite them in Zig, just to protect their jobs. The incentives are broken at every level.
The most important part of this piece is not the conclusion. It is the structural trap Suresh exposes: vendor executives cannot correct customer executives who claim 100x productivity gains, because doing so threatens enterprise contracts and careers. Nobody in the room is allowed to say the number is wrong. Read the full piece to understand how that silence is now shaping billion-dollar technology roadmaps.
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