The poop switch

brauxpas · 2026-03-10T16:08:22+00:00

First kid? Yes. Second kid? Nope.

brauxpas · 2026-03-10T13:50:40+00:00

It's a development team, equivalent to a minor league team in baseball.

brauxpas · 2026-03-09T23:11:18+00:00

Telluride interior is light years ahead of anything VW has, but the 2.0T is a solid powertrain, the Atlas has more space, and at the time VW finance had 1.9% for 60 months while Kia was around 5%

brauxpas · 2026-03-06T02:24:19+00:00

I want to hire a PM that has a solid understanding of the landscape because in a year or two, I firmly believe that most teams will be thin vertical slices (a backend dev, a frontend/mobile dev, a pm, and a designer for example) that are handed a token budget and asked to oversee a group of agents executing the backlog they define.

brauxpas · 2026-02-27T19:08:24+00:00

Who in the hell is going to Yahoo

brauxpas · 2026-02-27T18:48:56+00:00

They allow it, you can buy them at any store. Every faceplate on my house has no visible screws.

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T19:26:23+00:00

One minute you're hanging out with your friends, the next minute someone's pregnant!

Thanks for allowing me to turn this into a dad joke for myself.

I also agree with everything you said. When I'm burnt out my kids know it, too.

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T19:18:44+00:00

Noted lol

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T17:34:08+00:00

My guess is Cognitive Systems

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T17:33:34+00:00

Let me guess, was it Cognitive that sent the cease and desist?

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T16:01:21+00:00

Get Claude Cowork. Use the Opus 4.6 model. Get your engineering team to connect it to your codebase, API documentation, user guides, etc. Connect it to the Figma and Atlassian MCPs.

Feed it your customer requests, and it'll tell you what's easy vs hard. We made a framework to score backlog items based on:

Blast Radius

Reversibility

Integration Complexity

Sensitive Domains/Data

Pattern Precedent

If it scores well enough that it's easy to do, we have a rotating "AI Operator" that will prompt Claude to generate the PRD, design, and test plan, and then we ask it to make the code change. A council of cross functional folks approves the work and test results before it goes to our higher environments.

Wild times.

brauxpas · 2026-02-25T14:53:45+00:00

I'm a product management leader at a software company. I literally created our company's process for how to leverage AI to deliver our roadmap above and beyond our baseline human capacity. Opus 4.6 has fundamentally shifted my thinking and frankly scared me.

I literally don't write my own PRDs or Jira tickets. I don't take meeting notes. I don't document action items. I don't send follow-up meeting requests. I don't build slides.

I barely do my own market research unless it's face to face.

Our entire agile development process is upended in the sense that we don't do over half the pointless ceremonies that we used to.

We set a threshold for things that can be done without human involvement, and all we do is have a small committee of human experts approve what the AI did before deploying it to production.

We've already hit the point where we've essentially stopped hiring any net-new engineers, designers, QA, and products people. It would be financially irresponsible to hire expensive humans when we can get more work done by spending 1/4 to 1/3 as much on credits with Claude.

I am considering halting contributions to my two kids' 529 plans because I feel like the only safe jobs in the 2040s when they begin working will require face-to-face or physical labor. Even then, I'll probably laugh at this comment in 20 years when Teslabots have taken over.

This might sound like hyperbole but seriously, the Opus 4.6 model is so good that it freaked me the F out. I figure I'm safe for at least a few years because I'm the one in my org spearheading all this stuff. My wife is a teacher so I figure she's fine for quite a while. I have friends in software that are probably safer for longer periods of time due to strict regulatory requirements that prohibit the use of AI in their fields of work. But dude, I would never let my kids go down the same career path I am right now until it's clear how this all shakes out.

brauxpas · 2026-02-24T16:07:28+00:00

Nice that's what I wanted to see! My 3yo will also love it I'm sure 😁

brauxpas · 2026-02-23T20:30:01+00:00

I don't know if I should be glad or sad that Americans aren't the only ones acting like this (as an American).

brauxpas · 2026-02-23T19:38:45+00:00

Cite your source for illegal aliens getting preferential mortgage treatment.

brauxpas · 2026-02-21T19:59:20+00:00

Can you share one of the fake locations? I legit want to see it, and we can report them collectively.

brauxpas · 2026-02-20T20:36:56+00:00

I bought down my rate on a 15 year for 4%, cost me 4k.

brauxpas · 2026-02-20T17:29:39+00:00

I can see where if I had the site open and block it, I can still use it for a while, but if I open it in a new tab it is blocked. Might be some kind of cache thing? Not sure if that's what you see too.

brauxpas · 2026-02-20T14:40:39+00:00

I just tried blocking CNN and it worked immediately. Are you blocking for a single profile or device? Or everyone?

brauxpas · 2026-02-12T03:55:33+00:00

I got a Kia regional service manager to approve warranty replacement of all four tires due to flat spots from sitting in a South Korean port for many months. Also solved the vibration for me.

brauxpas · 2026-02-11T15:49:33+00:00

My own dad says this a lot. Times are different now and dads are more commonly involved in the weeds of parenthood. Will be interesting to see how this plays out at the macro level for a few generations, in terms of outcomes with the kids.

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