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hennell 2 hours ago

Personally my favourite feature of the new ai world is not when I use it directly but it's when one of my managers uses it to try to fix a problem, then issue to me their findings and I have to defend my process to someone who understands neither my process, their suggested solution nor often the problem they're solving in the first place.

cube00 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It gets worse when they try to challenge your solutions by feeding it back into the LLM and sending it on to you, arguing with an LLM is exhausting, arguing by proxy with a human parroting its responses is excruciating.

On the plus side when they do this they can't flood your calendar with those "quick chat" meetings because they know they won't be able to hold a conversation on the issue beyond the first minute.

willsmith72 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

True, but this was a problem long before AI (read this article, met this guy at a conference who told me x, my boss said blah)

AI probably exacerbates it but crappy managers exist regardless

nitwit005 an hour ago | parent [-]

Before maybe you had to deal with someone hiring schetchy consultants once in a while, but now the managers have a limitless well of dubious answers to draw on at any time.

darkwater 39 minutes ago | parent [-]

But now you have a new tool in the upmanagement toolbox: subtlely tell them to implement their idea in prod with Claude Code, and see it for themselves.