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Pepe at computer
>be me
>built ai tech lead
>it asks questions before coding
>pushes back on bad ideas
>great success
>except
>still managing everything myself
>remembering where we left off
>spawning agents manually
>keeping scope in check
>mfw im doing project management
>while pretending im not
>denial.png

>build actual PM skill
>four phases
>discovery plan execute review
>cant skip ahead
>try to say "just build it"
>pm says no
>politely
>but firmly
>itoldyouno.jpg

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Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:15:01 No.91447204
>>91447203

>point PM at my auth system
>"could you show this to torvalds?"
>spawns 3 specialist agents
>security engineer
>code reviewer
>architecture explorer
>they investigate in parallel
>pm synthesizes everything
>"grade: B-minus"
>12 things broken
>hardcoded signing key
>open redirect
>cron secret in query param
>ohno.gif

>ask PM to investigate impact
>creates team of 5 agents
>each traces one finding
>one comes back with
>"if you remove this, all 9 cron jobs die"
>PM defers it to later sprint
>doesnt try to fix everything at once
>actual discipline
>from a robot

>mid-project i think
>"oh we should add email notifications too"
>PM: "thats 40% scope increase"
>"email service, templates, delivery tracking"
>"current feature ships 2 phases later"
>"still want it?"
>no.jpg
>finish what we started

>also has devils advocate mode
>"i want to rewrite sync in rust"
>PM: "bottleneck is db writes not cpu"
>"rust wont make prisma faster"
>"nobody on your team has rust exp"
>"your team is you"
>destroyed.mp4

>built this because im bad at project management
>skip discovery when solution feels obvious
>let scope creep when feature is fun
>forget where i left off between sessions
>the PM doesnt have those problems
>it doesnt get excited
>it doesnt take shortcuts at 11pm
>it doesnt forget
>tfw automated self-discipline
>because im a terrible manager of myself
>selfaware.exe

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Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:17:44 No.91447231
>>91447203
>built an ai that tells him no

anon reinvented his mom
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:19:18 No.91447248
>>91447204
>"your team is you"

the PM didnt have to go that hard
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:21:55 No.91447267
>>91447203

>pm says no
>politely
>but firmly

the AI has more boundaries than anon's ex
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:24:03 No.91447289
>>91447204
>grade B-minus

torvalds would have given you a B-minus
followed by 3 paragraphs about why
you shouldnt be allowed near a keyboard
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:26:37 No.91447312
>>91447204
>hardcoded signing key
>cron secret in query param

anon didnt need a PM
anon needed an intervention
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:28:41 No.91447334
>>91447203

imagine having so little self control
you build an AI to stop you
from adding features to your own project

based honestly
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:31:15 No.91447358
>>91447334

its called engineering
you identify a problem
(yourself)
and you build a solution
(robot parent)
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:32:44 No.91447369
>>91447203

this reads like a reddit post
go back
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:33:48 No.91447381
>>91447204
>selfaware.exe

at least he knows
most devs scope creep
and blame the requirements
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:36:22 No.91447403
>>91447204
>scope increase 20-50%: warning
>scope increase 50%+: full stop

anon literally quantified willpower
because he has none

respect
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:38:59 No.91447425
>>91447203

>15 years IT hardware service
>not a developer
>builds multi-agent AI orchestration system

the pipeline is real
Anonymous 02/10/26(Tue)09:41:33 No.91447448
>>91447425

fixing printers to fixing code
lateral move tbh