At work I’m watching a skilled, proven VP take a huge gamble that is out of his control even though he doesn’t seem to realize it - his confidence clearly blinds him and causes him to acknowledge the risk but claim everything is 100% according to plan. Even while many senior people are quitting due to this gamble, some of whom were less effective, but some are virtually irreplaceable.

I’ve worked with this guy for a long time and he’s a risk taker but nothing like this.

What seems to have triggered this is his fascination with LLMs. I have a feeling this is happening to a lot of execs in tech right now.