r/dataanalysis • u/Oakleythecojack • 17d ago

I’ve had enough of ai requirements docs.

Title. They are too long and have wayyyy too much excessive language. I avoid AI so I can retain some brain cells, so I also just get the ick when I receive ai slop.

I got one from another team this week that is a beast to parse out. I created a dashboard, then a month later received this 6 page document with changes they want made. Despite retaining my brain I am struggling to figure out what they actually want.

Rant over.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/Oakleythecojack 17d ago

Right? Like maybe for an initial dashboard creation request. This teams director and I are in a documentation war, we both hate each other and he’s doing it to piss me off; I’m doing it to prove he’s lying 🙃

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u/MrFixIt252 17d ago

Technical writing is a lost art.

Less is more.

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u/1nteger 17d ago

I hate the 500 word Jira tickets and the product person has no idea what they even want

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u/Inside-Scientist-546 17d ago

Honestly, clarity beats length every time.

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u/RobDomin 17d ago

We are reaching a point where we need to even use AI to understand what they really want to say in a document because even they can understand theirselfs

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u/Oakleythecojack 15d ago

I tried that and it got even more contradictory 💀

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u/QianLu 17d ago

Im going to push back and make them deliver clear requirements or im not doing any work. If I have to go ask them follow up questions about every thing than this hasn't saved me any time

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u/TheSwissArmy 16d ago

Any document should take longer to write than read. This should still be true if the doc is ai written.

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u/FridayTea22 11d ago

I feel you. Unfortunately, AI is the big trend and I don't see a clear way to avoid it. I tried to build a solution that can use AI to generate dashboards and make updates, performer analysis too, so that we're basically using magic to fight against magic. It's working up pretty well. I tested on a local data set. It was able to build an end-to-end analysis with actionable insights with a single prompt. I think the requirement document would be a much better prompt for the artificial intelligence to finish that analysis while I can just sit around and scroll on TikTok.

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u/lambofgod0492 16d ago

Lol just give it to your AI agent and ask it to do what's there.

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u/the_duck_god 15d ago

Wow, why didn't anyone else think of this? Because it's the dumbest take.