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I tried so hard to get things done at work at first. Everything just grinds along through meetings and "research spikes". Things that should take 30 minutes take months.
So, I guess that's what they want.
Except they also want us to use AI to go faster. The problem isn't generating code too slowly. It's the numbing void of meetings and "process".
Nobody likes the pointless tedium of meaningless meetings yet we are all forced to perform in that circus, I wonder if upper management forces this style of working because their day to day job is nothing but meetings and so that's what they think working looks like for everyone or maybe they are insecure about the fact that they don't build anything concrete and so they want others to do meetings to legitimize their own job in the eyes of others.
I think there's something analogous to parasites or cancer in large organizations. People who are bad for the health of the organization, through things like creating too many inefficient meetings or stifling useful behavior, accumulate in time. They're not so egregious that the immune response kicks them out, but they adapt to the system and fatten themselves up at the expense of the host.
You know the archetype. The "product guy" who's always looking busy with a spreadsheet, but mostly just slows down meetings.