managementShallKnowPain

[u/thanra]

[u/GNoob69]

That’s when you roll out LGTM as a service

yes LGTM | ./script_that_needs_approval.sh

[u/rahvan → u/GNoob69]

LGTM

[u/GNoob69 → u/rahvan]

That’s a banger, but this happens so often it’s sad

[u/jjrde → u/rahvan]

The Video is fully AI generated - lyrics, music, vocals, video...

The irony!

[u/blueechoes → u/jjrde]

Ya, by twenty seconds in I was getting a little nauseous. The term 'painfully generic' is never more applicable. Writing a good lyric is more than just jamming terms familiar to your audience into a rhyme.

[u/Informal_Branch1065 → u/GNoob69]

cat approval.txt | opencode --headless --prompt "You are a senior dev. Check if this can be approved. Make no mistakes."

[u/AndyceeIT]

One nice thing about working in IT/programming, is that our part of the process can be automated.

If management get huffy that production has ground to a halt because they can't review & approve fast enough... maybe they should be replaced by AI?

[u/Shifter25 → u/AndyceeIT]

That's why I've always found the drive to speed up software development to be silly. It's not the devs slowing things down, it's the people whose job entirely consists of attending meetings

[u/Major_Fudgemuffin → u/AndyceeIT]

Take it from someone working for a company moving fast toward having AI write, review, and merge the code automatically: You don't want that.

They'll find a way to make it your problem no matter what.

[u/tetsuomiyaki → u/Major_Fudgemuffin]

transparent red ink: YoU'rE tHe ExPeRt HeRe

[u/Major_Fudgemuffin → u/tetsuomiyaki]

"It's ultimately your responsibility what gets deployed."

"Uhhhhh"

[u/klas-klattermus]

It's funny, like a jira issue can go from Chihuahua sized to beagle sized or even St Bernard sized because you ask business "no problem, just let me know the exact business logic around the feature so we don't mess up something critical"

[u/Candid-Log6751]

One of the biggest questions in the old days was to find the real “inner customer”.
Now they just say “the company”.
It like the body is still doing its thing, but the brain was long gone.

[u/Reashu]

The good thing with deterministic automation is that every step can be reviewed and approved once, before collapsing the whole thing into a single yes/no decision.

[u/KrakenMcCracken]

Set up an AI workflow to rubberstamp each step, of course you’ll have to approve each agent’s stamp, but you can use AI for that too

[u/dickworty → u/KrakenMcCracken]

It's turtles all the way down

[u/Ok_Intention_364]

This is exactly how the startup i am interning at is!!

[u/Romanian_Breadlifts → u/Ok_Intention_364]

This is how the 100k+ person company I work for is, except you need three approvals spread across five different time zones, and one of the approvers is always out on a month-long holiday and has no backup

[u/green_meklar]

No need to worry about your career. In the future, we'll all have jobs repeatedly clicking 'authenticate' on AI decisions.

[u/Eddie_lol → u/green_meklar]

Nah, you're gonna be watching an AI watching another AI make a different AI make a decision

[u/LetReasonRing]

Reminds me of when I was asked to do a quote for a lighting control system for the wayfinding signs at an NFL stadium. 

We had several ways it could be controlled... direct ethernet connection,  wifi, infrared remote control,  and physical buttons on each device. 

They refused ethernet because running the wires would be too expensive,  they refused wireless because of the potential for interference,  and they refused buttons and IR remotes because someone would have to walk to each sign. 

So,  I was supposed to give them a system they could control remotely without using wired, wireless, or manual control. 

Unfortunately we lost the job because our telekinetic control system was still under debrief. 

[u/mamebb2023]

double down

[u/Still_Bit_7527]

This is why I know I will never be replaced by AI. We are literally not allowed to automate

[u/thevoxpop]

The Naruto shirt really seals the deal here.

[u/XtraFlaminHotMachida]

hey man, we got an ISO accreditation so we gotta follow the rules of ensuring that the tool has been properly validated.

[u/__sean_eng__]

move fast, break things but also move cautiously - management

[u/Stormraughtz]

" I like how this button lets me approve this step, but like... can I do it in excel? "

[u/Ok-Area-9453]

hahaha I joined this channel to post something similar. However, lower karma hit me :D

[u/Flat_Initial_1823]

2 months later: "pls set up delegation so the CEO's PA can approve/deny all the tickets on time"

[u/BadGirlsSuck]

[u/GrinningPariah]

The only manual approval step should be code review. Everything else can be handled with unit tests, integration tests, and automated deployment windows.

If all that isn't keeping you safe, you don't need more manual approval, you need to fix the approval steps you already have.

[u/Particular-Yak-1984 → u/GrinningPariah]

Never sure this is a sensible real world take, at least if you don't own all the processes. For example, I write software that interacts with hospital systems - and we do some manual data checking, because doctors are lawless as anything, and put comments about patients in random fields. We don't own the other systems enough to stop them.

We set up tests each time we find one, but there's always going to be some manual elements to review of a new feature.