People only achieve life-goals because they get attached to the process of making them happening. No single person ever has set a multi-year goal and achieved it because they were chasing the goal.
Those sensors are the apex of Modernist arrogance, where people just decide they know every detail about any system they look at and can control everything.
There is no single place where they work. But at least people have been steadily removing them for the last 30 years.
In the 80s. If you look at what your examples have in common, you'll notice you've heard it in the 80s.
Too bad 80s nostalgia is all the hype nowadays, but at least this seems to be passing in other subcultures. I really hope it passes in software development too.
Well, they have a choice of pandering to this one large customer for whom they'll always be the untrusted underdog, or pandering for the larger, more diverse market.
They never managed to become profitable as the untrusted underdog, so the option of keeping doing the same was obvious, I guess.
1 - Be the underdog with good reputation in a market completely monopolized;
2 - Have the incumbent self-destruct by vibecoding its product and pushing AI above every other feature to its customers;
3 - Loudly announce that you are leaving your past good behavior behind, and that you are betting everything on vibecoding and pushing AI to your customers!
Movie studios go out of their way to amplify a few outspoken racists when people start trying to criticize movies on reasonable grounds. That's why when all you can hear about a movie is that it's "woke shit", it's because there's nothing good about it.
People only achieve life-goals because they get attached to the process of making them happening. No single person ever has set a multi-year goal and achieved it because they were chasing the goal.