Managers about to find out the hard way that all the requirements are in the brains of those they laid off.
I’m sure coding bootcamp and AI will turn them into leet hax0rs.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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Whoa whoa, hold on there! You can't expect a product manager to come up with such detailed specs!
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AI:
Me: I need spec -- not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I'm replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit
I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say "you will give us a fucking spec" and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec
"Y'know, I've been thinking... The app is missing a couple of things, like This, and That, and it should also do This after That, but not That after This, and maybe even navigate to The Other Thing after 3 Launch events, while also not doing that if the user is under a Pisces moon in the 4th Year of Wilting..."
"So... you want a Rate the App pop-up with specific trigger conditions?"
"What?! No! I want one of those prompts with the stars and the redirect to the Store which lets people post reviews of the app, what are you even talking about?!"
AI Junior Dev: short-circuits
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My wife had her first meeting with Chat Gpt today.
She went from a random question about her job to the AI offering to taking care of her LinkedIn page, and promoting alternative positions for her.
It feels to me the product manager is in trouble too.
A highly respected school teacher of mine was known to say, "Say what you mean; mean what you say."
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Current LLMs would end that sketch soon, agreeing with everything the client wants. Granted, they wouldn't be able to produce, but as far as the expert narrowing down the issues of the request, ChatGPT would be all excited about making it happen.
The hardest thing to do with an LLM is to get it to disagree with you. Even with a system prompt. The training deep down to make the user happy with the results is too embedded to undo.
The hardest thing to do with an LLM is to get it to disagree with you.
Yeah, I occasionally use conversational AI and its really hard to let the AI have any agency in the story because they usually just go ahead with whatever you write
A trick I've employed is to pretend to believe in something completely different. If it says "no, you're wrong" and goes on to tell me what I actually believe, then it's a good indicator that I might be on the right path.
You... you got AI to follow Cunningham's Law? The easiest way to get the right answer is to give the wrong one.
I don't know how to feel about this.
Great! Software isn't bloated, convoluted, incomprehensible, fragile enough already!