Acceptance Criteria
Talking about the good, the bad, and the ugly of how software gets made, and the people involved along the way
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From the CEO of an Agentic AI company telling you that agentic AI is the inevitable future (surely not because he's financially incentivized to make you believe that), to billionaires buying bunkers in New Zealand to flee when the revolution comes for them after their AI has put all of us out of work, to the cult of personality that Sam Altman has built up around himself like some Dollar Store Timothee Chalamet Dune dictator wannab...
It's another Reddit grab bag as we answer some folks questions about career path options for Product Owners, how to get the most out of your 1:1 time with your manager, and whether Product Managers and Project Managers are interchangeable.
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This week we take a look at some viral TikTok clips and react to the insane testimony of Google's Eric Schmidt asking for unlimited energy and an abolition of regulation to help them build nuclear power plants to fuel their catastrophic war of choice with China over AI.
And we watch a baffling roundtable discussion at Andreessen Horowitz where a few tech bros opine on the future of capitalism where no one has any money to afford to...
It's a Reddit questions episode! We discuss whether the future of Product Management is a hybrid AI-driven PM/engineer role, what to do when an engineer refuses to give you an estimate, a Product Manager who doesn't realize he's got to sell the positive outcomes to bring internal stakeholders along with him, and more.
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Ignoring the risks of the AI economy has left us perched precariously on a three-legged stool. Just one leg needs to collapse to bring us all down.
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Is Tilly Norwood - the AI "actor" - a good thing for Hollywood, or does it herald the end of all human creativity and the death of art itself? Just a quick little debate we have this episode in reaction to a TikTok discussing the latest AI news out of California.
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It's a news roundup where we look at four stories from recent tech news, including Elon Musk's favorite LLM Grok going full-pedo recently, Mark Zuckerburg's $70 Billion oopsie, and Google realizing maybe it shouldn't let an AI hallucinate about health-related queries. And there's a robot that can kinda sorta almost do your laundry. Rosie the Robot it is not.
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On this week's episode we dig into some challenges people have with agile architecture and planning processes and critique a particularly obnoxious Reddit reply while we're at it.
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The post E064: Is there such a thing as Too Much Planning? first appeared on Acceptance Criteria.
Why is everything a subscription these days? TV, movies, books, music - you don't seem to own anything anymore.
This week we dig into the history of how the industry evolved into the SaaS model and how that bled into the consumer world turning everything into a rental.
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From layoffs to mental health crises, we are starting to get a clearer picture of the horrible impacts AI is having on all of us, and in this episode we continue to ask what the government and our society is going to do about it.
Content Warning: this episode does discuss a few recent cases of suicide related AI chatbots, so skip ahead to 25:16 to avoid those topics.
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In Part 2 of our look back at the Industrial Revolution, we examine the impact on the economy and workers, discuss how economists at the time, even as far back as 1830, were justifying the scale of job losses, and comparing that to the impact AI is having today.
It's part history, part future predictions, and all super fascinating and often troubling. And don't forget to go back and listen to Part 1 in last week's episode for the h...
No, you didn't misread that, we're doing a two-part history lesson on the radical earth-altering time period known as the Industrial Revolution, and what it can teach us about our modern day struggles with how AI could change the world again.
I promise, it's actually super interesting, so come learn some history with us as we compare the steam engine, the advent of electricity and factory work, and today's breakneck pace of AI adop...
It's a product review episode! We take a look at the new Google NotebookLM AI studio that tries to help people synthesize data sources into digestible materials like videos, podcasts, flashcards, and more.
But the conversation quickly (and unsurprisingly) devolves into a debate over whether humans need to remain in the loop with tools like this and how the current generation of GenAI seems to be attempting to replace us rather than...
Whether it's working with engineering teams on story point estimations or managing the feedback from marginalized user bases, good Product Management requires you to be adaptable to the situation and try new things.
Sometimes that's scary. Welcome to corporate life.
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Well, that WAS going to be the title of the episode. What started as a conversation over vibe coding tools and the challenges of paying a corporation who is subsidizing their Generative AI models to help you do your critical thinking quickly got diverted onto benefits fraud, politicians who lie to you, and whether or not Kevin is allowed to break capitalism to fix things. It's a contentious episode our first week back after the hia...
Sometimes the better answer is to not do anything at all. If you can't prove the value of a feature or that the effort to achieve that value is worth it, saying "no" to the idea is often the best course of action.
We also look at scenarios where Product Managers and Engineers can benefit from being users of their own software, as well as the benefits of having competitors you can "borrow" inspiration from.
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Kevin gets a little spicy in this bleep-filled episode discussing the latest changes to Meta's policies around fact-checking and hate speech. Trans rights are human rights, and bowing to pressure from Trump and Republicans on letting people use slurs and lie to each other poisons the well for the rest of us.
Content warning for difficult discussions of trans rights, vaccines and autism, and a variety of things Meta has now decided ...
Chinese LLM company Deep Seek upended the AI market this week with a new AI model that is comparable to ChatGPT and other AIs but appears to have cost barely $5 million to create.
At one-twentieth the cost of Open AI, Meta, and others' models, it begs the question: what the hell is the US market for AI doing asking for $500 BILLION right now??
Also, we look at Google's quantum computing breakthroughs and debate whether physicists a...
We tackle some more Reddit questions, including someone who's looking for ways to track their teams' mood, how to find a mentor, how often to constructively criticize your agile process, and whether fixing every bug is bad, actually.
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From understanding why UX designs don't always translate to the actual front-end code, to finding the creativity and joy in maintaining other people's code, it's another Reddit grab bag.
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