I think you were broadly misunderstood. If the defined constants come from or are checked against the ones stored in the database, fair play. If they're floating around in some static consts in a code file, also ok as long as that's extremely well documented and someone knows what's what. If some boss pays to cut corners for it to be written with magical constants like "WHERE life.meaning!=42" and then fires the person who they hired to write that script, they deserve whatever they get.

Just like the meaning of life, it's best not to come to premature conclusions. Could all work out, or it could be a funny joke for aliens in the end.