> One day a consultant or another yesman will be able to check in and syphon precious resources with their pipe dream and I’ll watch six figures fly out of the window while my dev team struggles debugging simulated ipads with mac minis.

Six figures? Oh sweet summer child. :)

First you'll need to burn seven figures to have a Big 3 advise your leadership that you need this tech. Then you burn the six figures implementing it with a lower tier firm.

We're in an industry ten years behind so we're just getting into Big Data. Obviously the issue that we can't write working normal software hasn't been addressed but we'll see how it goes. I'm actually relatively optimistic.

Take a step back and look at your work conditions. Maybe you should become the consultant in that story.

No thanks will not be able to sleep at night doing that line of work (not consultancy in general, just the overselling and running with the money bit)