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Is there a term for something similar? My boss is injecting hopium. He barely sleeps compiling massive massive documents which don't answer anything. We literally have a "(LILR Design Language)" spec which when you keep slicing through it, doesn't actually say anything. It takes 70 seconds to full scroll through it with the fast scroll mechanism, but the whole thing boils down to "basically if it looks good then its…
I would genuinely like to see a version for freelancers: “Your Client May Be Suffering from AI Psychosis.”
Is there a term for something similar? My boss is injecting hopium. He barely sleeps compiling massive massive documents which don't answer anything. We literally have a "(LILR Design Language)" spec which when you keep slicing through it, doesn't actually say anything. It takes 70 seconds to full scroll through it with the fast scroll mechanism, but the whole thing boils down to "basically if it looks good then its…
A manic episode.
There is so much hype around AI and using it to move faster that the extreme focus on ‘product’ and prioritizing ‘impact’ has greatly relaxed. For the first time in my entire career, I’m able to prioritize addressing technical debt and friction in our SDLC processes.
Normally, these types of changes get bundled in with regular product work and cause timelines to grow. Nobody paid down technical debt unless it came due and was no longer optional.
I am using AI to address tech debt, but these are all things I identified as problems - and big improvements - long before AI was a regular tool in the toolbox. I just could never demonstrate how addressing them early would pay off in the long run through faster project turnaround. Fixing known issues simply doesn’t rank against new features when it comes to prioritization.
Anyway, I’m thankful to finally get to fix these things, and our ticket-to-deployment time is going way down - but none of this matters if ‘product’ doesn’t streamline their goals and priorities as well.
> Tan’s website made 169 server requests > (Hacker News makes 7). It shipped 28 test files > to production users. It loaded 78 JavaScript > controllers > Uncompressed 2MB PNGs that could’ve been 300KB. > An empty 0-byte file sitting in production. > A rich-text editor loaded on a read-only page. I mean - none of this is great, but if these are the very worst examples they can find then it feels a bit like scraping th…
While not the end of the world - we routinely deal with similar crap produced by humans - it's a clear marker of the kind of quality you get from AI without real supervision.
Is there a term for something similar? My boss is injecting hopium. He barely sleeps compiling massive massive documents which don't answer anything. We literally have a "(LILR Design Language)" spec which when you keep slicing through it, doesn't actually say anything. It takes 70 seconds to full scroll through it with the fast scroll mechanism, but the whole thing boils down to "basically if it looks good then its…
I’m seeing big wins with AI, but not at the product level. I’m excited about the progress, though maybe I should be questioning our priorities more. There is so much hype around AI and using it to move faster that the extreme focus on ‘product’ and prioritizing ‘impact’ has greatly relaxed. For the first time in my entire career, I’m able to prioritize addressing technical debt and friction in our SDLC processes. Nor…
This might be the best article I’ve read in months. Thanks for sharing it!
> Tan’s website made 169 server requests > (Hacker News makes 7). It shipped 28 test files > to production users. It loaded 78 JavaScript > controllers > Uncompressed 2MB PNGs that could’ve been 300KB. > An empty 0-byte file sitting in production. > A rich-text editor loaded on a read-only page. I mean - none of this is great, but if these are the very worst examples they can find then it feels a bit like scraping th…
Rapid iteration of a bad code base, what could possibly go wrong?