If you don't want this, tell your government to put an end to the war

God I hope I never ever have to work with you

(Serious question)

I suck at chinese but I want to get better and I'm too embarassed to try and talk with real people and practise.

This is a great compromise. even just practising for a few minutes I already feel way more confident based on its feedback, and I feel like I know more about the details of pronunciation.

I'm worried this might get too big and start sucking like everything else.

I've been working in a startup for 5 years now, and the startup is going through growing pains to make a more formal company structure. As they do.

We have a new boss of my product area, who is looking to deliver on their first quarter.

Our product area has a long-running issue design issue that we have been trying to find a way out. This has been multiple years of discussions and proposals, a real group effort of design and feedback, and finally we have reached a point where we've 've found a design that helps everyone, and so people are excited to get onto it. (It's just event sourcing).

I've personally been leading the design of this event sourcing solution, and we've had an implementation strategy and parallel verification strategy etc. That the CTO himself recommended I do, and everyone is on board. There's real excitement in the air.

Our new boss has come in, and over promised on Q1 deliverables, and has made a notion document ( experimenting a bit with AI to come up with a plan, as he says) - talking about little things like using DTO to abstract from the database.

All of the details of his plan are using keywords that don't fit together. Like he'll call it "immutable DTO (bitemporal) event sourcing live calculation model records" -- if I try to push on what this means, which part where, he says that the words all just mean the same thing and that if I want to be pedantic I can change the terminology.

His example source code of how this would look like is a snippet of our current code, but with "FooQueryset" replaced with the words "list[FooDTO]" and that's all.

Meanwhile the plan that I have been working on and people are getting excited about is the "alternative, second, backup" idea. He'll repeatedly say it won't work and we haven't sorted out those details and we need to make sure we add value. He's also brought in our product team (so it's not just me and him) - and he leads with his version first, meaning some others on the team have no clue what certain terms mean, and when they try to get clarification, he'll butt in with how it's just my alternative plan and that words mean the same things and we should refer to the code sample. Some seem fine with this explainer, and I'm being inadvertently aggressive when trying to ensure we're all speaking the same language.

He's talked to some other lead engineers about his plan, and he said they're happy for it, but I don't know if that's because they're assuming it's the original plan under the hood (that they've already been happy with) or if he's making sense and I'm actually the one who's confused here.

If I didn't have a grounding in reality I think I'd probably be in the ward ATM. How do I deal with this? Do I just ride out the inevitable year-of-pain and then bring us back to the original plan? Is this the way the corporate world works?

Last year, some heads-of-engineering have been happy with my work and told me they want me leading my own team. I feel like taking up that offer, but it will look like I'm just being a spoilt sport because I didn't get my way, and really I don't even know if I can argue against that.

What do I even do here?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739230

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# Comments: 3

I think it's just a case is perspective

The amount of ai generated planning and fluffy workloads that I've been able to just delete from the team has saved the company many engineering hours. Not least of all in bugs.

Value your expertise and experience. It's only greeting more valuable, not less.

I make an effort to talk to people and now we have "come over to dinner" friendships with people we met at a public park.

the issue I have is that I want to have some apps that will need to be approved somehow. banking for starters, but some other things as well.

I just got the bigme hibreak pro, which is an e-ink android phone, and while I loved it in all cases, I realised it was a total dealbreaker that the Android Auto navigation was broken (something to do with their display chip couldn't report the right display size, I also want to be able to take and look at colour pictures. so e-ink didn't quite work for me there.)

Otherwise, I love the idea of this!

I think I would like a bit of an escape hatch: maybe have the normal web-browser that's accessible under like 4 or 5 clicks.

The big issue isn't just that these phones are set up to be addictive, but they are also too legitimately useful in other situations as well. I use facebook to scroll AND check marketplace. I use instagram to scroll AND talk to friends.

so some friction is necessary, but some friction is a total dealbreaker. if I can't bank or navigate, then the change of phone had affected me too much for me to not counteract my whole life needs to change in some way.

I've been thinking about this often, because i wanted the hibreak to work.. I actually think there needs to be some sort of "Life OS" where we can get told how to live in this new world where we can't check our phones as often. Do we include "look at a physical map" as part of our routine or do we just allow android auto to work and accept that it might be an avenue of leaking through some content? (not a great example)

https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects. (click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)