... but Palantir? That rather deflated the vision of regret.

Honestly, maybe I’m way out of the normal HN demographic, but my first reaction was, this sounds like, “how I had a lucky escape and didn’t spend most of my early career actively making the world a much worse place.”

I’m no great fan of MS, but given the choice between a job there; or the possibility to work on bringing about a dystopic surveillance future, I just don’t see the hard decision.