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Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else
fortune.com/2026/09/17/shopify-tobias-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/
Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
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: …
Replying to @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
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
Replying to @BigDiction@lemmy.world
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.
Replying to @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
Is the AI is being used what’s the Project Manager for?
Replying to @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
We need to stop replacing software devs with LLMs and instead replace managment with LLMs!
Replying to @Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org
Couldn’t be any worse
Replying to @jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
Yeah, you shouldn’t blame AI. You should directly blame the person who implemented the LLM system used.
“AI didn’t realise meeting requirements was important”
“John implemented a system which routinely misses requirements and has wasted 50 hours of work which could have been easily avoided with the previous system”