My own version, from the world of IT. We continue to add complexity for the sake of complexity, rarely because of necessity. We never question adding new thin

My own version, from the world of IT. We continue to add complexity for the sake of complexity, rarely because of necessity. We never question adding new things, yet there's always an excuse not to streamline, not to remove, not to consolidate. We must deliver new features, because that is progress. We must never remove old systems, because that harms us. We must support everything forever, because it's always too costly to modernize, or update, or replace. It doesn't matter if the problem doesn't exist, what matters is that by incorporating this product, we solve the problem. We must move everything off the mainframe and onto servers. We must move every server into virtual machines. We must move every virtual machine into AWS. Every EC2 instance into a container. Every container into Kubernetes. Into OpenShift. We must move this code into Lambda. Do not question the reasoning or its value, it must be done. How did our budget balloon in size? Why are our expenses always going up? Why is our cloud bill so high? We must outsource, clearly. We must hire abroad. We must retain contractors and consultants. We need more people with certifications, not experience. Why is everything broken? Why is our data leaking into the public realm? How did we get hacked? We must bring in more contractors, more consultants. That is the only answer. We don't need internal staff, we need managers who can handle vendors, who can judge KPIs, who can identify better contractors at cheaper costs year after year. Why is the competition beating us? What vendor should we go with to one-up our competition? We must consult the Gartner report. We must talk to other CIOs. We must never talk to our staff, because they don't understand the problem. We don't like our vendor anymore. They raised prices on us, or didn't take us to that restaurant we liked for contract negotiations, or didn't get us box seats for that event this year. They must go. What do you mean we can't just leave AWS this quarter? What do you mean we can't just migrate our infrastructure to another competitor? That proprietary product is an industry standard, so just move to another one. What are we even paying you for? We checked all the boxes. We completed all the audits. We incorporated all the latest, greatest technologies. We did everything we were told to. So why aren't we successful? Why aren't we growing? ...ah, that's why. We didn't incorporate AI. That must be it. That will fix it all. Then we'll be successful. Then everything will work.