This is exactly why management is hard to unit test!

You are absolutely right. If you 'Shield & Deliver' every time, you risk becoming the 'Yes Man' who absorbs infinite scope creep for someone's vanity project (Empire Building).

The 'Correct' answer actually depends entirely on the Nature of the Request: Legitimate Business Crisis? -> Shield & Deliver Noise/Politics? -> Save the Sprint

Distinguishing between the two before you act is the master skill. I think keeping both paths as valid strategies with different 'Trade-off' warnings or having 2 different contexts is the right move to reflect that ambiguity

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StrangeSound 3 days ago | parent [-]

Are your responses written by an LLM?

	▲	maxverse 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It's crazy that it set off our alarms at the same time. One agreement -- oh, nice human. Two -- what is this!?
	▲	pingananth 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		When the traffic was peak, I did use LLM to polish my responses. Later, I started replying without an LLM. No, AI agents at work. This is an individual at work!
	▲	alienbaby 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Exactly what I was thinking. Is someone letting their ai agent do _all the work?
	▲	tonnydourado 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'll my hat if they aren't.