[steveBK123]

> The unspoken secret is that this kind of BS wasn't/isn't only going on in the data fields (in my opinion).

Yes, once you see it in one area you notice if everywhere.

A lot of IT spend is CEOs chasing something they half heard/misunderstanding a competitor doing, or a CTO taking Gartner a little too seriously, or engineering leads doing resume driven architecture. My last shop did a lot of this kind of this stuff "we need a head of [observability|AI|$buzzword].

The ONE thing that gives me the most pause about DuckDB is that some people in my industry who are guilty of the above are VERY interested in DuckDB. I like to wait for the serial tech evangelists to calm down a bit and see where the dust settles.

[znpy]

> Yes, once you see it in one area you notice if everywhere.

Exactly. It cannot be unseen. It’s almost a curse.