I am interviewing with a small company that has adopted agentic development in a big way and is looking for a vp of engineering to guide things. I tried to present a balanced view of excitement for the possibilities built on first solving governance, guardrails and mitigating the lethal trifecta. Senior executives are not interested and my position likely disqualified me, even after I talked about needing to speak to your client data governance teams and CISOs. Crickets. They actually said we're looking for someone who's a big AI booster. Bullet dodged.

When the Republic gains in strength, the Jedi go hiding in the desert.

A lot of CTOs should be looking into D&O insurance.

They sound like a team looking to get funding or sell out and need the AI sauce to sweeten the deal, not deal with messy real business needs.