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My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. He just accepts

My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. He just accepts anything that Claude says as truth. He vibecoded over 60,000 lines of code in 3 weeks, but couldn’t get it to do what he want and made a project overrun for 3 extra months. When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame. Now thats leadership.

butterknife 2mo ago
Future president in the making.
- N_Lens 2mo ago
  I don't think we should expect such unreasonable standards from future presidents.
  - rsoto2 2mo ago
    bro the president suggested we nuke a hurricane and raped someone and is dismantling our natural resources, the bar is substantially worse than a couple months technical debt.
    - tomjakubowski 2mo ago
      Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.
    - NamlchakKhandro 2mo ago
      Fellow Apple product user. Join me in jeering at people who drink instant coffee.
      - N_Lens 2mo ago
        I use Apple and drink instant coffee, though!
      - rsoto2 2mo ago
        I grew up on instant coffee, i don't like it much anymore EXCEPT for tossing a bit and some ice in a protein shake 100% recommend.
baw-bag 2mo ago
My boss is a designer and does the same. He has come into a mature product's codebase, the only project the company has, he called me about 6 months ago and started boasting with a screenshare showing me how he had 5 terminals open and smashing through ideas straight into production. Now the system is failing, he thinks I am going to go in and fix all of his problems. Told him straight what I told him 6 months ago, he owns it, so get it fixed. Not sure what happens to myself or the company by the end of the year. Needs to be more stories about these people injecting AI Hopium and destroying their product, there isn't enough of them.
- vorticalbox 2mo ago
  > you break it you buy it. Works well for lower stack systems or juniors merging stuff into a development environment not so well for production.
serial_dev 2mo ago
> When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame. He doesn’t have 25 years of management experience for nothing, that’s a crafty vet move!
jakzurr 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing this; I'm hoping your horrific experience will help some of my friends, who are afraid LLM's will take everyone's jobs.
maximinus_thrax 2mo ago
> My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. This is C-suite material.
notabee 2mo ago
The most serious vulnerability that any LLM has exposed to date is in the human brain, where a whole lot of people cannot help but anthropomorphize it and they seem to be willing to totally forego critical thinking. I think this vulnerability has existed for a long time but the mass exploitation is going to destroy quite a few organizations.
- andrekandre 2mo ago
  > totally forego critical thinking if there is anything i've learned working in this industry is that everyone hates thinking; they want a rote formula or pattern they can repeat for every project and every functionality... and ai mania is perfect cat-nip for this type imo

butterknife 2mo ago

Future president in the making.

N_Lens 2mo ago
I don't think we should expect such unreasonable standards from future presidents.
- rsoto2 2mo ago
  bro the president suggested we nuke a hurricane and raped someone and is dismantling our natural resources, the bar is substantially worse than a couple months technical debt.
  - tomjakubowski 2mo ago
    Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.
  - NamlchakKhandro 2mo ago
    Fellow Apple product user. Join me in jeering at people who drink instant coffee.
    - N_Lens 2mo ago
      I use Apple and drink instant coffee, though!
    - rsoto2 2mo ago
      I grew up on instant coffee, i don't like it much anymore EXCEPT for tossing a bit and some ice in a protein shake 100% recommend.

baw-bag 2mo ago

My boss is a designer and does the same. He has come into a mature product's codebase, the only project the company has, he called me about 6 months ago and started boasting with a screenshare showing me how he had 5 terminals open and smashing through ideas straight into production. Now the system is failing, he thinks I am going to go in and fix all of his problems. Told him straight what I told him 6 months ago, he owns it, so get it fixed. Not sure what happens to myself or the company by the end of the year. Needs to be more stories about these people injecting AI Hopium and destroying their product, there isn't enough of them.

vorticalbox 2mo ago
> you break it you buy it. Works well for lower stack systems or juniors merging stuff into a development environment not so well for production.

serial_dev 2mo ago

> When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame. He doesn’t have 25 years of management experience for nothing, that’s a crafty vet move!

jakzurr 2mo ago

Thanks for sharing this; I'm hoping your horrific experience will help some of my friends, who are afraid LLM's will take everyone's jobs.

maximinus_thrax 2mo ago

> My Eng lead has no coding experience, 25 years of management experience, yet has driven 3 separate projects into technical bankruptcy to date. This is C-suite material.

notabee 2mo ago

The most serious vulnerability that any LLM has exposed to date is in the human brain, where a whole lot of people cannot help but anthropomorphize it and they seem to be willing to totally forego critical thinking. I think this vulnerability has existed for a long time but the mass exploitation is going to destroy quite a few organizations.

andrekandre 2mo ago
> totally forego critical thinking if there is anything i've learned working in this industry is that everyone hates thinking; they want a rote formula or pattern they can repeat for every project and every functionality... and ai mania is perfect cat-nip for this type imo