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ahmedehab_01 2d ago

Reply with AI as well. And make it obvious. Then ask AI for a very brief and concise summary of your communications at the end of every day.

This is bad, but you have to deal with it one way or another that will keep you sane. And you can always communicate with the rest of your colleagues to not feel alone.

For him, it's a new fun toy to play with, and he also thinks that makes him very AI-forward or AI-native or whatever the current corporate jargon is.

He is doing this because he thinks this will net him another promotion, and that's the way forward because big shot CEO are doing. That's how most corporate managers think. It seems they know what they are doing, but they mostly try to blend in as much as possible and be the most "forward-thinking" and "raising the bar" and "leading by example".

spk265 1d ago

Wow! I am in the exact same situation with my boss, who's also the CEO. Unfortunately, we are a startup of 4 people, and I am the only technical guy, but with AI, my boss thinks he can pretty much write the software himself now, even though he keeps saying all his work is "jumping off point". He continues to merge code into the deployment branch. I am honestly just nodding along and don't care much about where the product is heading at this point since the decision to write the code was already made by my boss.

pluc 3d ago

First rule is - if you don't write it, don't expect me to read it. If you AI-write something, then let me get an AI to read it too.

The only solution I can think of is to get AI implemented upstream in the planning phases so that it results in specs for spec-driven development. Your boss will be able to directly contribute without bothering anyone, but he will also think developers are obsolete. You need to warn him about the dangers of vibe-coded shit, but either way there's no positive scenario these days.

al_borland 2d ago

When my boss sent me a 10 page email of AI ideas on how to complete our upcoming project, I asked him for his prompt. The prompt is what he really cares about and what I needed to know to make sure the projects meets his expectations. The prompt was 2-3 sentences.

g8425 2d ago

I've had this same experience with a client, except they refuse to send me any prompts at all. I'm forced to take the slop and do something with it even though it's contradictory and in many cases counterproductive. Unfortunately this strange behavior is causing many of this person's stakeholders and collaborators to just outright disregard his demands and form a curious 'shadow organization' just to get day-to-day work done. The client is frustrated that nobody is listening to him but it's not really him speaking, is it?

BLKNSLVR 3d ago

I practiced this a long time ago when the food if email became too much. I just don't read most of it. If it's important, someone will speak to me about it. This has worked for me ~10 years (I do skim my email, but not often).

Find the minimal number of critical things you feel you should be working on, and work on them. Use what resources are practical to use and ignore the rest. I've got a relatively complex problem to figure out over the next week or two, and one of the developers has been asking Claude and posting much of the output to Confluence pages, but even he says it's too much information to process and, as a result of a few things we've learned along the way so far, much of the AI summarized information is now out of date.

I just try to concentrate on doing a good job with the information I am able to process.

jamesforestwest 2d ago

I think this is the best method for solving such problems

mindwok 3d ago

I think unfortunately this is a stage people have to go through when they're first exposed to AI. You just have to let it play out for them to realize actually they still need to cooperate with humans to get anything meaningful done.

reddmachine 3d ago

I feed it back to AI to respond with em-dashes, en-dashes and clearly Claude-like writing.

variety8675 3d ago

Just ignore it and they'll get bored and move on to the next thing

arm32 1d ago

It's been 11 months now, though.

platevoltage 13h ago

I have a client that has started "helping". I told him that under no circumstances should he push code into staging, which I almost regret, because I get to read Claude messages in Teams asking me to merge stuff. I just do the task, and don't engage with the AI bot in chat.

1over137 3d ago

I don't have any advice, but I sure do feel bad for you!

paulbernard 3d ago

you should take the information the same way whether it was produced by him manually or with the help of AI. If you won't someone else who needs a job more will.

andsoitis 3d ago

Have you talked to him about it?

And what do your colleagues feel?

benfidge 1d ago

in a similar vain, how do you stop your boss and business partners producing tons of AI slop?! lol! I'm forever explain that AI is a tool. Owning a skill-saw doesnt mean you know how to use it lol!!

Ask HN: How do you deal with AI output of your boss?