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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work

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  1. nmehner · · focus · HN ↗
    "inventing work" = "requirements engineering"

    "Inventing work" is a strange phrase to use imho.

    1. arealaccount · · focus · HN ↗
      I thought this was going to be an article about slacking off with style
      1. Insanity · · focus · HN ↗
        Well I was thinking more align the lines of pure "promoware". I.e, find something to build that'll get you promoted but is useless beyond that.
      2. giancarlostoro · · focus · HN ↗
        Just tell everyone Claude is still working on it, even if you don't use AI.
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