This is either a parody, a self-unaware remembering or an outright lie. It's got all the elements: stupid CTO (how'd he even get this high? sucks at programming

This is either a parody, a self-unaware remembering or an outright lie. It's got all the elements: stupid CTO (how'd he even get this high? sucks at programming but good at politics), Lying vendor (everyone there is so stupid and terrible!), sycophant employees (they just tell the CTO what he wants to hear!), heroic dev team and of course our savior, the author. I questioned the "young and foolish" / "grumpy veteran" position when they started talking about json and mongo (maybe replace that with a text file and proprietary binary format), and yes, this sort of shit happens to varying degrees all the time, but I'm pretty sick of the everyone but developers, and more specifically MY team - or even just me, is an idiot - "I'm the only one who cares and does the right thing" - which this was definitely not. Question for the audience: most of you work for big, non-startup and likely non-software companies; when you look around can you honestly say "nobody else cares, just me"?