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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Busywork fills time and can feel productive. I found it a constant temptation as an eng and pm.

    I could spend a couple of hours thinking hard about an actual problem that needs solving, orrrrrr I could fuck around with the bug database doing stuff that gets counted by my boss…

    And bosses need to be on alert that they aren’t giving out busywork and feeling good that their employees aren’t staring into space/doodling/chatting any more (which is often what thinking looks like).

    The whole LLM thing needs to be studied for all of the cognitive dark patterns they are exploiting. It’s like a grift encyclopedia.