Today, the major part of the IT industry that focuses on delivering solutions for businesses has become a grotesque machine, meticulously engineered to bleed businesses dry while delivering little to no real value.
Developers, managers, architects — entire organizations — have abandoned any pretense of delivering meaningful outcomes. Their only concern is how to extract as much money as possible from businesses. Delivering value is irrelevant; all they care about is that the cash must flow.
To sustain this deception, they imitate work: overengineering trivialities, conducting endless refinements, staging meaningless ceremonies, and rolling out hollow “improvements” that devour time, budgets, and attention — often producing negative value.
Buzzwords, architecture patterns, frameworks, certifications, and cargo cult methodologies dominate the landscape, creating a smokescreen of frantic, purposeless activity.
Beneath it all hides a brutal reality:
Most IT initiatives aimed at supporting businesses do not produce real business outcomes.
The stagnation we see in IT today is no accident.
It is the inevitable consequence of systemic rot.
Businesses are pushing back, reflecting on the billions wasted on meaningless delivery. Layoffs, budget cuts, and the mad rush to replace developers and managers with AI are not anomalies — they are a response.
Businesses are done subsidizing an industry that burns money without delivering anything of substance.
IT solutions exist for one reason only — to make money, save money, or protect money.
This is the simple truth that only a minority understands.
Businesses do not fund IT departments because they admire technology. They invest because IT, when done properly, becomes a weapon — increasing profits, slashing operational costs, accelerating decisions, and annihilating competition.
IT is not a playground. Not a lifestyle brand. Not a safe space for tech enthusiasts.
IT is a business weapon.
A tool for dominance. A tool for survival.
Within the IT solution lifecycle, every decision made and every line of code written must be ruthlessly judged by three filters:
- Does it increase revenue?
- Does it cut costs?
- Does it reduce risk?
If the answer is no — it must not exist.
If you are a developer, a manager, or a so-called “tech leader”, you must understand one thing:
Your role is to help the business succeed.
Developers obsessed with shiny frameworks and coding aesthetics are dead weight unless they deliver measurable business outcomes.
A good developer is not the one who masters trendy frameworks or polishes code to academic perfection. A good developer is the one who brings measurable value to the business in the most efficient way — measured in time and cost.
Managers are no different. Drowning in Agile ceremonies, Jira tickets, and SAFe certifications will not save you. If you cannot tie your role directly to profit, cost reduction, or risk mitigation, you are ballast. Disposable ballast.
Modern project management has become a self-sustaining scam — a theater of the absurd, where delivery metrics are worshiped while real-world outcomes rot and die unnoticed.
Real professionals tie their existence to three brutal outcomes:
- Increasing revenue.
- Reducing costs.
- Mitigating risks.
Everything else is waste.
Everything else must be eliminated.
The IT industry is collapsing under the weight of its own lies.
Developers who don't understand business will be replaced — by those who do, or even by machines.
Project managers who can't prove real value will vanish.
Companies that fund IT for the sake of “innovation”, without clear traceability to business results, will die.
This is not a hypothetical.
It is already happening.
The future belongs to those who reconnect IT to its only legitimate purpose:
Business first.
Wake up, IT!
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So meaningful!
Thanks!