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Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else (fortune.com)
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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Literally a meeting at work today.

Director: "Why was this requirement missed?"

PM: "Well, my understanding is that AI was used to write the requirements and that AI was also used to generate the code and perform code reviews. ...So there were no actual people who understood the requirements involved in the process. Also, this seems to be becoming more and more of a problem."

Director: "Oh. Uh... Ok. Maybe don't bring up "AI" whenever you discuss this with senior management because I'm not sure how well that will go over. Just say, 'the requirements were missed.'"

PM: ....

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We need to stop replacing software devs with LLMs and instead replace managment with LLMs!

[–] labyrinth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Couldn't be any worse

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

No one read the PRD in detail! Shocking

Edit: This is what meetings should actually be used for. Going through line by line and reading the document aloud to sanity check and discuss potential misses imo

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

This is what meetings should actually be used for. Going through line by line and reading the document aloud to sanity check and discuss potential misses imo

That would actually make meetings a valuable use of our time which is exactly why it won't happen.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago

Is the AI is being used what's the Project Manager for?