Gaslight-driven development

Re:Gaslight-driven development by meepmorp on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:14PM (#44588711)

If it were somehow a human that was consistently and confidently handing out made up programming advice about one's products, would companies still respond by just adding whatever imagined feature and writing a vaguely bemused blog post about it?

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by loloquwowndueo on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:29PM (#44588793)

Maybe I can start pretending I’m an LLM and see if that gets me a pass when I make silly mistakes or hallucinate in entirely the wrong direction. As long as I look confident doing so.

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by lazide on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:32PM (#44588815)

We don’t talk about PMs here. (/s)

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by achenet on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:04AM (#44589607)

s/PMs/bad managers/

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by guelo on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:53PM (#44588925)

If that human was giving advice to 90% of your customers you just might.

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by hobs on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @09:41PM (#44588876)

No they would confidently assert they need the dumb thing you keep saying.

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Re:Gaslight-driven development by eapriv on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:35AM (#44589732)

Isn’t this the whole shtick of Mr Martin, author of “Clean Code”?

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