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piva00today at 1:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's the mandate from top-down. Of course it's a people issue, the problem is that the people creating this issue are exactly the ones paying us.

My manager got the mandate she needs to start coding, she doesn't want that, no one in our team wants that, she's a great manager exactly where she is right now. Nonetheless, we are helping her to code to show something for the higher-ups so she can keep her job, we really don't want to lose one of our best managers because some C-level is anxious about AI...


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eithedtoday at 2:11 PM

Even if it's a mandate top-down, you can:

- show increase in errors and outages caused by this approach

- integrate manager changes into your CI pipeline (coding / reviewing / testing / documentation)

- discuss how your manager can do the changes they need to do without sidetracking all other work

Make it indeed about the money: coding by PM + fixing what was coded + dealing with fallout is greater expense than coding by PM + automated guidelines + reviewing what was coded.

That is - if the environment you're working in is reasonable and it's not a power play by your PM

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nuggetdmtoday at 2:37 PM

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