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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by naasking on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:24AM (#35219207)
Tell ChatGPT it's a product manager overseeing engineers and providing executive summaries. Create a system that feeds executive emails inquiring about project statuses into ChatGPT and emails the developers asking for updates. Developers reply with jargon-heavy details about tickets for next milestone, ChatGPT writes an executive summary that eliminates jargon and sends to executives.

Not the full job, but it can probably be built right now.

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by CuriouslyC on Sunday March 19, 2023 @10:54AM (#35219563)
And unlike code, if the model fails it'll be more obvious and less costly.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by jtwebman on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:10AM (#35219754)
This is a project managers job not a engineering managers job.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by ryandrake on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:29AM (#35219932)
OP said “product manager” which is also wrong. Funny how these three very different roles constantly get mixed up by smart engineers.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by 6510 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:45AM (#35220133)
It would make things a lot easier if it was all one big AI. Lets refer to it as The company.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:23PM (#35220563)
Maybe because from the POV of engineers, they all look kind of the same and half of it doesn't make sense.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by marcosdumay on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:03PM (#35221056)
The bad version of all three look exactly the same. And the bad version of all three are actually worse than nobody at all. Yet, high management is completely convinced those people are essential so they'd rather keep a bad professional there than get rid of them.

Anyway, the good version of those three are completely different, and add a ton of value on very different places. I think they are rare enough that many people don't ever meet one of them.

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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by tanseydavid on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:30AM (#35219950)
Titles--bloody titles! The AI doesn't care what its title is.
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Re:John Carmack: From a DM, just in case anyone else needs t... by myshpa on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:21PM (#35222514)
And no emails are even necessary (it can scan all internal systems and repositories instead).
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