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ge96today at 8:02 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Requirements documents that were once a page are now twelve.

man I see this on Jira a PM or BA is like "yeah I'll write that AC for you" giant bullet list filled in a bunch of emojis and checkmarks


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smallmancontrovtoday at 8:16 PM

Does anyone know where that style came from? Did it become popular in listicles or on github or something? Or is there one person deep inside OpenAI or Anthropic who built the synthetic data pipeline and one day made the decision on a whim to doom us to an eternity of emoji bullet points?

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idle_zealottoday at 8:35 PM

You're not supposed to read the Jira ticket. You're supposed to paste the link along with instructions for your Claude agent to "do this ticket, no mistakes," then raise an MR for whatever it writes. The text is a wire protocol between agents. If a PM doesn't care enough about the requirements to write, or even read them, then would they even notice if the code works or not? Why would they care about that? What does "works" even mean if no human knows the spec?

How quickly we become reverse centaurs.

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InexSquirreltoday at 8:36 PM

God I hate the emoji and checkmark usage so much. It feels so try-hard cutesy.

Just give me normal bulleted items, I can read.

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