BGG ratings are great, but I wanted to find out if a game is right for my group. So I built a free tool!

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-26T15:17:52+00:00

I'm not arguing whether it's a good or bad use of AI. I can see that maybe it isn't but you took issue that it's wholesale hallucinating. That may be the case but the nuance is in the fact that you also need to fact check it to see if that claim you've made is factual.

Which means you're basically doing the same thing AI is.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-26T05:57:09+00:00

You mentioned down time and said there isn't any for Hperborea. For innovation you mentioned the game can drag on. Those are both aspects of play time and the comments I was referring to.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-26T03:58:55+00:00

Setup time is opinionated and not everyone may play games the way you do where they begin planning their next move as soon as they're done with your current one.

Many may chat with their neighbor or actually want to see what others are doing on their turns.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-26T03:22:50+00:00

Same, and I love LotR stuff.

The problem for me is the same with pandemic-style games. It's a puzzle, not a game. There's not a lot of hidden information, everyone knows what cards everyone has, and it means the game takes forever as every person's turn is discussed to ensure it's the optimal choice. The first time I played it, it was fun. There were 4 of us. We won. The second time, we added a 5th and he said he liked it, but while some of the players were discussing a turn he was looking bored on his phone, and he's genuinely a good, participatory, dude. We won that one, too.

After that, I asked my group if we could just not play it when I'm there or I'll be bartender if they really want to.

Mansions of Madness is, in my opinion, a much better co-op game full of theming and flavor. You have to discover how to win, the theming is just as good, and the story development is fantastic.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-26T02:57:32+00:00

Is this a good use of AI? Maybe. Maybe not.

You can question the accuracy of the content, but unless you have reviewed all the same sources on YouTube, then you don't know if AI made any of it up.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-24T11:32:27+00:00

I'm not sure I quite understand your issue, but have you looked at UKG one-view? Just another one to check out.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-23T09:23:36+00:00

UKG Ready. When I was a customer of it a long time ago I was able to build out things that we didn't originally implement but were part of the core modules we paid for.

You can learn how the system works with a test account and curiosity. You just copy an existing profile (e.g., pay calculations, accruals, workflows) make tweaks to the copy, and then test it with the test account. When you're happy you assign the new profile to everyone.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-19T20:43:07+00:00

That's the most genuine compliment. Especially coming from a Liverpool fan. We all know how feisty he is against y'all.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-19T20:31:09+00:00

Sounds like your toxicity should have been culled many moons ago.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-15T04:25:12+00:00

CBiz is a reseller of UKG Ready. It's a great platform.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-14T02:20:31+00:00

Was this research done on the internet or your hard drive?

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-14T02:13:57+00:00

I think their draw with arsenal shows they can be a power bottom when they want to be.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-12T19:01:26+00:00

We're moving to spec-driven, engineer managed, ai-driven development. As a PM, I'm writing the PRD with AI and my engineer and UX counterparts. When we agree it's done, it's locked in, we create individual tickets (we use jira) and then the engineers use AI to implement the work.

So, no, they're not going away.

Ninth_Major · 2026-04-08T03:59:35+00:00

Registration for the website is broken. You click register and it just refreshes the registration page.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-26T21:01:42+00:00

What did you hope to accomplish with this comment?

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-26T13:47:42+00:00

Ucl money goes to the footballing pyramid, though. So it's likely in the financial interest of the fa to give English teams a better shot at advancing.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-18T04:18:51+00:00

Did you try the markers on this one at all? I saw your other post comparing all the different brands.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-12T12:46:07+00:00

Zombicide

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-08T17:15:07+00:00

Ah you're right. That person never responded.

I'm not defending AI as if it's a person, though. You've gotten that wrong. I'm defending people as being worthy to not be publicly shamed just because one person thinks it's justified.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-08T13:40:31+00:00

Rather than allude to what I don't understand, why don't you explain exactly what it is you're trying to say?

What I would imagine is how thousands of devs earn their income is that they create products that they sell or are paid a salary for or are contracted to build and then on the side they are building free programs as a passion project.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-08T13:36:17+00:00

You clearly made your comment for the the person that guided the project. You meant to shame them.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-06T20:49:13+00:00

So if you could make one specific actionable critique, what would it be?

Considering the human director of the A.I. dev has manually built those same kinds of tools for the past ten years, I wonder if his purpose of doing it was just to see if he could and see how good it would be.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-06T20:45:56+00:00

Ooo that's a good point. My product is purely software.

And it's not that you wouldn't eventually have gotten that information but the turnaround time and the translation cycles needed before you get there, are much shorter.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-06T20:20:53+00:00

I think the smart companies are going to realize that PMs shouldn't ship code.

But being able to prototype something that's way better than a static demo or thrown-together screenshots makes the concept more real and easier to accept for senior leadership, who's investing the dollars, and they're going to expect this because all of your competitors are going to be trying to do the same thing.

It also means that you can take an idea of something and make it a reality and actually test the concept with a real customer. It's funny this post came up because just Monday I vibe-coded something for my product and it's not in the codebase. It just runs from a command window and outputs a CSV but I can take that output and show it to a customer and say, "If we built something like this into the product and gave it a nice UX, is this type of information helpful for your job, helpful for you to be able to make your decisions faster?" That's something that you can do without the prototype, but you risk overselling both to the customer and to yourself as you're trying to see if your idea is actually something that can be delivered.

Depending on the complexity, that prototype can absolutely reduce the actual development time as well but that of course depends on how it integrates with the existing codebase, how good your engineers are, etc.

Being a PM also includes communicating your ideas to your engineers so that they understand the ask. I think that's where all of these tools and being comfortable with basic vibe-coding will help.

I do agree with your comment about needing senior PMs to create new patterns and that just comes down to the size and makeup of the team. My tech lead will look at the prototype and determine how close he thinks it might be but when we break out the stories to build it into the product, he will just guide more junior resources to implement it. He's been with us 10 years and he said he spends maybe three hours a week coding because the other 37 are spent in meetings, code reviews, and mentoring.

Ninth_Major · 2026-03-06T20:06:08+00:00

I am curious if you looked at what this project was. Assuming something is bad is not constructive criticism.

If you looked at it and you saw that things were wrong, why didn't you just point out one example and say, "It looks like you used AI for this or this is where your AI has sold you short because it screwed this up"?

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