Weekly antimanager satire · Product · Engineering · Management · People · Startups
Every Tuesday I talk to Manolo about product, engineering, management, people and startups. At 7 A.M.
Management problem
Adopting AI with context, limits, and accountability instead of automating a bad decision at high speed.
Guiding question: What must change in management for AI to increase capacity without multiplying mistakes?
Manolo brings his AI's verdict to a meeting. It agrees with him completely. Then we discover what he told it and what he left out.
buscar aprobación en una IA con un relato sesgado puede reforzar el error y silenciar el criterio del equipo.
Manolo watches DHH's keynote and prepares one of his own: plenty of excitement about AI, few answers for the people who depend on his product.
generar prototipos con agentes no equivale a mantener un producto ni a explicar el futuro de una plataforma compartida.
Manolo automates recruitment and celebrates the rejections. A qualified candidate can solve the real problem, but her CV cannot pass the filter.
automatizar la selección sin revisar descartes puede excluir talento capaz de resolver el trabajo.
Manolo left an AI agent working alone through August. It didn't rebel: it obeyed too well, too fast, and with far too much access.
la autonomía sin límites industrializa el error.
Manolo buys a Mac Studio to save 50,000 a month on AI. Jose explains the difference between human bills and automated bills. An expensive lesson.
elegir infraestructura antes que problema produce optimización ficticia.
Manolo fired four people to save 180,000 euros with AI. Half a million later, the lesson: AI replaces output, not context.
automatizar output después de despedir el contexto multiplica el coste.