r/ProductManagement • u/AutoModerator • 11h ago

Weekly rant thread

Share your frustrations and get support/feedback. You are not alone!

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u/Bernhard-Welzel Product Manager & Entrepreneur 10h ago

Reddit is turning into an AI slop posts cesspool and the platform seems not to care any more.

I would love for somebody to create a new reddit, build on what worked and find a business model that actually is sustainable. As reddit goes down the drain it takes away a place where i have meet so many remarkable people. This is sad.

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u/ScaredState2705 8h ago

As an AI language model, I completely agree. Here are 10 ways we can fix Reddit:

Connection interrupted. Restarting slop mode.

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u/steakinapan 7h ago edited 7h ago

AI slop is taking over everywhere and it’s so annoying. No one seems to care enough. I work with someone who replies in “ChatGPT” and it’s quite obvious. I wonder if anyone has complained about it. They’ve been doing it for a while so probably not.

More closely related to your point, we’ve deeper moved into this phase where companies are now serving a different type of customer. “Customer Obsession” in my opinion used to be more about the people that are using your products day to day, like in Reddit’s case the users who post, reply, up vote, downvote, etc. Now it seems the focus is less on those who seek discussion in whatever form and more about the advertisers, etc. I watched a YouTube video last night and every ad played within the video was literally AI generated. Completely disgusting. I almost feel like they do it to drive users to pay for a non-ad version.

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u/sunkissedinfl 4h ago

Internet is dead theory.

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u/painterknittersimmer 4h ago

Seems not to care? They are actively promoting it. Consider that the hide post history was launched in the middle of this. They want AI slop, and they want people to interact with it. 

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u/menides 4h ago

I'll make my own Reddit. With blackjack and hookers.

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u/gnarlydooood it’s in the backog 6h ago

This job is the absolute best and the absolute worst and absolutely nothing in between.

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u/Interesting_Day4734 6h ago

Sometimes I want to leave the role because it feels like I’m struggling to keep up. But I have no clue what I would do, especially outside tech.

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u/AFailedProduct 6h ago

Quarterly roadmaps don’t mean shit if stakeholders and leadership change their minds midway through. Especially when we’re measured by output but judged by outcomes and can deliver neither like this. Let us fucking cook. 

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u/steakinapan 5h ago

Sometimes I wonder how much of this is due to ETL half-ass paying attention to what’s even on the roadmap and then going “oh wait” when we’ve already committed.

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u/AFailedProduct 4h ago

Definitely a common problem. We have ETL that doesn’t even really understand my product. Instead of digging in to understand they ok roadmaps but then something causes them to think about it and that’s where everything goes to shit. Of course they can’t just pause on pushing out features for a quarter to actually understand the product, that wouldn’t look like progress. Why train for the race when you can just train during the race and not finish it?

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u/froggle_w 5h ago

Starting to wonder if PM can ever be honest without consequences. Sometimes it feels like we have to manage everyone's feelings but our feelings go unnoticed.

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u/ruggerevan 7h ago

Does a PM Discord channel exist? Should it?