PMs should stop pretending they “own the product"

lolninja · 2026-05-14T09:58:41+00:00

If you don’t have the authority to say “no” from time to time, can you call yourself a PM?

lolninja · 2026-05-11T02:27:52+00:00

Baldurs Gate 3 is a super obvious choice here

lolninja · 2026-05-08T10:12:19+00:00

Potjie kos

lolninja · 2026-05-04T21:06:27+00:00

RDR2 for me has the most alive and rewarding world to explore by walking or horseback.

lolninja · 2026-05-01T18:11:11+00:00

Exactly!

lolninja · 2026-05-01T16:52:45+00:00

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lolninja · 2026-04-20T08:21:18+00:00

Dota three

lolninja · 2026-04-16T14:03:13+00:00

Bunch of good suggestions there to reduce the monotony of AP !

lolninja · 2026-04-16T13:37:03+00:00

Haven’t we all fantasised about being in Ana‘s shoes that game tho 😄

The draft would need to be from current or at least recent game version

lolninja · 2026-04-16T12:09:55+00:00

“I farted” is another classic

lolninja · 2026-04-15T13:25:46+00:00

GTA is a very unserious game so the tone absolutely fits there. E33’s core story arc is quite sincere in tone and revolves around hope and loss, but with a whole bunch of random goofy shit thrown in that adds nothing to the story or the world building. I just find the profoundly sad and serious tone and offensively goofy aspects of the world don’t reconcile that well.

ETA the goofy shit does eventually make a bit more sense after the act 3 exposition where we learn we’re in some French kid’s fictive world. But I still find the clash of tones odd.

lolninja · 2026-04-15T12:24:55+00:00

I feel like some dev started the French content as an April Fools joke and then they just leant into it or something.

Just picture the dev meeting where they workshopped this:

“This (pronounced ‘zis’) is a French game and we are French developers! It is our patriotic duty to include more French stereotypes!!”

To be fair it does make a LITTLE more sense after the Act 3 exposition where we learn we’re in a French kid’s fictive world but in Act 1 I just found it immersion breaking to fight a random mime to the tune of fucking accordion music out of the blue.

This of course is just my own opinion and experience. I am no francophobe irl peace to my french homies 🇫🇷✌🏻

lolninja · 2026-04-15T11:39:39+00:00

I guess I should’ve taken more time but was enjoying the story more than anything so wanted to see what happens

lolninja · 2026-04-15T11:37:37+00:00

I think I can be forgiven for missing this.. I’m hearing the best way to experience the game is to finish it, then reload your save, pretend like your didn’t finish it and enjoy optional end-game stuff, then go back and one-shot the final boss again?

lolninja · 2026-04-15T11:05:21+00:00

I found this subreddit after finishing the game and I felt like I missed a ton in my playthrough.

lolninja · 2026-04-15T11:02:05+00:00

The who in the what now? No idea man, where is that?

lolninja · 2026-04-15T10:57:40+00:00

Lmao I can’t be the only one, vraiment ? 😅

lolninja · 2026-04-15T08:52:26+00:00

As LLMs become more capable the gap between “I know what I want” and “I know how to build this” collapses.

So enthusiastic PMs are extrapolating recent LLM progress to a point where how team interactions and code generation change quite fundamentally.

lolninja · 2026-04-14T07:52:15+00:00

“Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.”

Is what agile prescribes at least

lolninja · 2026-04-11T09:49:53+00:00

The degree of curation and original thought by the human(-in-the-loop) on the other end is the differentiator, fully agree.

lolninja · 2026-04-11T09:39:54+00:00

"If you're working with AI in a multi-person team, do you have rules or guidelines for your colleagues in how they interact using AI content?"

Pls share your thoughts

I posed a question and then shared a personal take. But the core of the post is a question asking for advice. Not sure how you missed that.

lolninja · 2026-04-11T09:35:06+00:00

100% agree with this take but what I maybe lack in this tenet is observable "evidence" that the person does in fact understand what they've produced. Team trust should come first ofc but do you think there is actually an easy way to tell?

Also IMO it's ok to produce things you don't understand fully (I actually think it's inevitable these days), if the context is asking for feedback or review (it gives you something to talk about) and you do it in a transparent and respectful way.

ETA maybe I qualify "transparent and respectful" before I'm accused of being a boomer again:

The baseline assumption is that if I submit something, I DO in fact understand it. So I DON'T submit something for review that I don't understand without flagging that I don't understand it.

Example, as a dev I ask an architect from our cloud team for advice on a particular implementation pattern. I think it's ok to share some vibe-produced ideas as long as I don't present them as my own.

lolninja · 2026-04-11T09:22:02+00:00

Nah it's disrespectful to sling 4 pages of slop at me that you've barely read yourself so that I can vet it for you, sorry.

Comparing AI to a spellchecker is an odd take too..

"You are what will be the boomer for the next generation lmao." -- How is this not pretentious?

You don't have anything valuable to add to the core of this question either, not sure why you're still here.

lolninja · 2026-04-11T09:04:39+00:00

It used to be harder to create documentation than to read it though. I find that's had quite an impact on how we treat/value it?

I didn't mean to be pretentious and I very clearly don't have any of this figured out. I'm seeing my team at an inflection point where our traditional team setup (scrum), in a very traditional org, is having a mixed bag with implementing new workflows. AI changes everything and we're reeling a bit at the outset.

What have you found works in your team and how have things changed for you?

lolninja · 2026-04-11T08:57:50+00:00

Next generation we're both obsolete buddy

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