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  zug_zug
  I think the points being made here are mostly good-ish. The last place I worked created a team of principles whose whole goal was to create a system to turn jira tickets into PRs and it was incredibly demotivating and bore no fruit before I left.But, and maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I kind of wonder why we write articles like this. Like if a culture is bad, is it likely a CEO is going to be looking for random blog posts for constructive criticism?Or even managers? I look at the market forces at play, and I just don't think many (any?) organization successfully create an incentive structure where performance on intangibles (specifically management) can be assessed well enough to make a bad culture into a better culture. I've worked at zero places where managers where seriously held to account for how "motivated" their employees were; when there were surveys of engagement engineers almost never truly believed they were anonymous (and why would they?) and were hesitant to give honest feedback.In short, being a CEO is a skill of crafting and debugging a machine of people, a skill that I think life gives almost no training for, and a skill that most people with that title have no awareness or aptitude for. </rant>
• aesthetics1
  AI accelerates dysfunction. It will help you get to the wrong place faster if you're already heading there.I do believe the opposite is true too. If you have a strong culture, a product or idea with promise, and a team of smart and capable people, it can move you faster in the right direction too.The problem is that every person or company in group 1 thinks they are in group 2.
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  joshheitzman
  It's easier to deploy AI than it is to create good culture.
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  newsomix9xl
  The devops ppl talked about culture too. Seemed not too helpful.Afaict toxic managers and C-level managers make for bad culture.Now what?
• rawgabbit
  AI style writing; didn’t bother.
• bitwize
  The biggest stock-price hack for a CEO is:* announce that effective immediately, the company will begin its transformation to an "AI-first" organization, with AI driving most development workflows by end of year* percolate the message through upper management down to line managers that they are to assure their reports that the aim of the transformation is to augment current employees, not reduce headcount* stealthily start lopping off heads anyway
• lilerjee
  How to develop good culture? Firstly remove AI.
• cyanydeez
  If this is true, almost all of big tech is becoming unproductive; so that follows.
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  sublinear
  Can we finally just admit that using AI for coding is equivalent (or maybe even slightly inferior) to web search?A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Giving junior devs or non-devs what is essentially automated stackoverflow copypasta on steroids only amplified all the downsides of inexperience that we already learned well over a decade ago.