alt Hacker NewsI don't see how AI coding agents are going to create 'more software' until the PO's and PM's of the world step back and let developer's communicate directly with the stakeholders. Or the PO's and PM's could cross-train on AI coding agents.
We are still being stressed to create all stories with such fidelity that 'any' developer can pick it up and implement it in the timeframe allowed for the size the story was given. When the story is written in that detail, we may as well copy it into an AI agent and have it implement it. But we can't do that, so we have people who have SME write up story's that sit in the backlog for 2 weeks until a developer can bring it in, so that they can spend a day implementing it (really 2 hours with 2 hours of meetings and 4 hours of video games) because the smallest pointing size we can give is 1 point and people aren't allowed to take on more than 8 points a sprint.
How can we expect things to get done faster when the team that reports work up to senior management put's such strict limitations on our throughput?
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What kind of professional would spend 4 hours of their time per day playing video games?
The true professionals spend those 4 hours making snarky Hacker News comments.
I would be more concerned with playing video games half the day than whether the PMs are slowing you down by figuring out the requirements
Listen man. Let me give you a tip.
Don't take it seriously.
Efficiency is not your job, until you can 1) solve it, 2) present the solved and implemented problem to senior leadership in one fell swoop.
Corporate America is a giant slush fund and this is how it keeps going.
Be grateful!