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0 pointsqueenkjuul11mo ago0 comments

My boss is obsessed with copilot PR summaries and they make me want to scream. A 12-line PR with a 40-line summary? And each description is "updated and enhanced <file>... Updated and enhanced <file>"

There's no utility in reading them, which means asking people more questions directly in slack instead, which genuinely makes the entire process slower for everyone. I know for a fact that no developer in my team would struggle to write 4-5 bullet points for any given PR in less than 2 minutes. My boss just genuinely thinks the slop is better (probably because he's not usually the one reading them)

Our Confluence is also rapidly turning into nothing but totally uninformative Claude-generated noise.

It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff when the end results can be so obviously wasteful and unhelpful.

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bob102911mo ago

> It's annoying to be repeatedly called a Luddite for questioning this stuff

I've been employing the strategy of pushing on the customer and product delivery expectations. Ask some variants of the following in your next team meeting:

  "Where are we at with Customer X?" 
  "How does Bob (the customer's CEO) feel about the project right now?" 
  "How will this sell us more copies or make the customer pay more money?"

These kinds of questions can rapidly reorient a team if a member with the power to terminate other employees is present. If the most senior management seems apathetic to these questions and you are interested in building an actual career, it might be time to move on. At some point, the person(s) paying for everything need to ask themselves if they intend to conduct a serious business or simply run a daycare for neurotic tech enthusiasts.

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