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by toomanyrichies 103 days ago
As an engineer and a daily if not hourly user of Claude Code, I would never dream I could do the jobs of my product / designer teammates. Not because I don’t have opinions on product or design, but simply because they do me the huge service of attending meetings so I don’t have to.

I recognize the necessary evil that is Zoom calls and face-to-face time in the larger context of running a business, but I also know what I’m good at and what I’m not. And long, drawn-out “alignment sessions” are not in my wheelhouse. If my PM and design friends are happy to take that bullet for me, I’m happy to let them do so.
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peter_mcrae 103 days ago
When the product marketer, product manager, and designer are the same person there is no alignment meeting.
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reverius42 103 days ago
In my experience at BigCorp, Inc., "alignment meetings" are for meeting with other teams, not for meeting with your own team. You'd just call that a "team meeting", "feature crew meeting", "leads meeting" (if it's just leads), or something to that effect. In BigCorp, Inc. you traditionally need to have both kinds of meetings somewhat regularly. Not sure how the advent of AI will change that structure.
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toomanyrichies 103 days ago
They meet with customers as often as they meet with each other. Another one of those necessary evils IMO- it's not fun but it needs to get done.
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3rodents 103 days ago
The final frontier: a warm body.
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