Testing and validation kind of imply that it won’t ship if it isn’t fit for purpose, which isn’t an option and most devs will know it’s kind of junk already.

That’s not to say there aren’t good use cases, but when forced to add an LLM somewhere it doesn’t work, and you have no examples of “correct” output anyway, validation is usually an afterthought.

That one team is super productive at the cost of everyone else grinding to a halt.

Now I just don’t involve him in anything unless forced.

Also, most people dont buy new cars, and the temperate climate means old cars live a long time, so our rate of replacement must be pretty low.

It has also been built by contractors who have no incentives to make it run locally or be easy to manage in production, but that isn't specific to step functions, and more due to poor leadership.

Maybe it's just a different style, but when I was a manager my 1 on 1s with my team was their chance for them to set the agenda. They had 30 mins of my undivided attention to discuss what THEY wanted to talk about. Except in rare cases, anything on my agenda was fit in at the end or I booked separate time for it.