Product management Memes

Ability To Make Critical Decisions Quickly

14 days ago 226.3K views 0 shares

Developer presents a straightforward test case for calculating the area of a square. Management immediately pivots to TDD philosophy and decides they're actually in the circle business instead. Nothing says "agile decision-making" quite like rejecting a perfectly reasonable test case because your product suddenly doesn't align with the geometric shape you're testing. The presenter is explaining basic unit testing while the executives are having an existential crisis about whether they make software for circles or squares. The real kicker? They're so confident about this completely irrelevant distinction that they're making critical architectural decisions based on... shapes. Tomorrow they'll probably pivot to triangles after the morning standup.

In Case It Doesn't Work Out

Programming Agile

19 days ago 201.4K views 0 shares

So you're having doubts about your coding career? Don't worry, the tech industry has prepared some lovely exit routes for you. Product management is the "I still want to be in tech but without the actual coding" path. Teacher is for those who think "if I can't do it, I'll teach it" (and honestly, respect). DevRel is basically getting paid to tweet and go to conferences while pretending you still code. And then there's goose farming – the most honest option here, because at least geese are upfront about being annoying and difficult to work with, unlike your CI/CD pipeline. The real kicker? Half the senior devs you know have already mentally chosen their path. They're just waiting for the right moment or the next production incident to pull the trigger.

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Gamedev Programming Frontend

1 month ago 241.1K views 0 shares

I Guess It's Cheaper To Give Away Games? Their Business Makes No Sense To Me

Epic Games out here playing 4D chess with their launcher. They'll throw millions at free AAA games to get you hooked on their platform, but ask them to implement a shopping cart or cloud saves? Nah, that's too expensive apparently. It's the classic startup playbook: burn investor cash on user acquisition while the actual product experience stays in beta for years. Why fix the UX when you can just buy user loyalty with free copies of GTA V? Their launcher still feels like an Electron app someone built during a weekend hackathon, but hey, at least the free games library is chef's kiss. Product managers everywhere are taking notes: features that cost dev time and improve user experience? Hard pass. Throwing money at marketing stunts that bleed cash? Real stuff right there.

The Truth Nobody Talks About

Programming Webdev Agile Frontend Backend

1 month ago 271.1K views 0 shares

Product managers hold endless meetings about button colors and microinteractions while developers are out here wrestling with legacy codebases held together by duct tape and prayers. Your IDE crashes every 20 minutes, the build pipeline takes longer than a feature film, and the documentation was last updated when PHP 5 was still cool. But sure, let's spend another sprint optimizing the hover animation on that CTA button. Because nothing says "developer experience" like having to restart your local environment three times before lunch while using a framework with 47 breaking changes per minor version. DX is the forgotten stepchild of software development. Everyone wants their app to feel like butter, but nobody wants to invest in tooling that doesn't make developers want to fake their own death.

Shots Fired

Frontend Webdev Gamedev Programming

1 month ago 268.1K views 0 shares

Product managers and UX designers really thought they did something by adding that tutorial button, huh? Meanwhile, 99% of users are smashing "Yeah, Skip!" faster than they can say "I'll figure it out myself" and then immediately flooding Slack with "how do I..." questions. The real kicker? Your team spent three sprints building that gorgeous interactive tutorial with tooltips, animations, and progress tracking. Nobody watches it. Ever. But somehow it's the devs' fault when users can't find the export button that's been in the same spot for two years. We've all been on both sides of this. Skip the tutorial, break something, then complain the documentation sucks. It's the circle of tech life.

Feature Updates Gone Wrong

Programming Agile Frontend Backend

1 month ago 225.8K views 0 shares

You know that feeling when your codebase is running smooth, optimized, and beautiful? Then product management decides it needs "just one more feature" and suddenly you're introducing unnecessary complexity, bloat, and technical debt. The monkey with a stick represents that shiny new feature nobody asked for, aggressively poking at your pristine, battle-tested code that was perfectly content just lying there being efficient. The lion's resigned expression? That's your code after the 47th "quick enhancement" that somehow required refactoring three modules and adding two new dependencies. Sometimes the best feature is no feature at all, but try explaining that in a sprint planning meeting.

Never Stop Never Building

AI Agile Programming

1 month ago 272.7K views 0 shares

Conference attendee sitting at their desk surrounded by enough AI swag to start a small museum, staring at their screen with the weight of a thousand unfinished side projects. Behind them, the Product Manager and Engineering Director loom like disappointed parents. The walls are plastered with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Hugging Face posters—basically a shrine to procrastination disguised as "staying current." The brutal truth: they don't want to actually build anything. They just need to check out the new LLMs. Because nothing says "productive engineer" like spending your entire week testing which AI model gives you the most creative excuse for not shipping features. The hype cycle chart in the background isn't just decoration—it's a lifestyle. That "Prompt Engineer" mug really ties the whole thing together. Chef's kiss.

Simple Cube vs. Sci-Fi Concept Art

Programming Webdev Agile Gamedev Frontend

2 months ago 278.3K views 0 shares

The perfect visualization of how product managers describe features vs. how engineers implement them. Left: "Just a simple cube, how hard could it be?" Right: The same damn cube with one unnecessary line that took 8 meetings, 3 design revisions, and somehow doubled the development timeline. The sci-fi concept art is just corporate speak for "we added a groove that serves no purpose but looks techy." This is why I drink coffee by the gallon.

When Does It Stop: The Corporate Buzzword Apocalypse

Windows AI Devops Microsoft Cloud

2 months ago 201.2K views 0 shares

When Does It Stop: The Corporate Buzzword Apocalypse

OH MY GOD, THE CORPORATE BUZZWORD APOCALYPSE HAS ARRIVED! 🔥 Windows isn't just an OS anymore—it's an "agentic" platform connecting devices, cloud, AI, and probably your toaster too! Meanwhile, users are LITERALLY CRYING TEARS OF BLOOD while product managers gleefully jam random shapes into holes, and developers? They're just peacefully accepting death with a gun to their head because WHAT CHOICE DO THEY HAVE? This is the circle of tech life, people! Users suffer, managers rebrand, developers code until they break, and Microsoft keeps "evolving" into whatever buzzword salad pays the bills this quarter. The innovation never stops... unfortunately neither does the pain.

Minus 10X Developers

Agile Devops Programming

2 months ago 275.8K views 0 shares

The tech industry's obsession with "10X developers" has spawned this beautiful hierarchy of coding reality. At the top, we have the mythical 10X developer - a shirtless keyboard warrior who apparently codes with the power of ten mortals. In the middle sits the humble 1X developer - just a normal person trying to get through the day without breaking production. And at the bottom? The "-10X developer" - an agile coach explaining what product managers do. Nothing says "actively harming productivity" like someone who doesn't code explaining how to manage code better. The real 10X move is avoiding meetings with either of these extremes.

Maybe We Can Add That In The Next Sprint

Agile Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

3 months ago 194.7K views 0 shares

Maybe We Can Add That In The Next Sprint

The classic software development hierarchy of attention! While developers lovingly cradle shiny new features like a precious baby, documentation and testing are barely kept afloat, gasping for air. Meanwhile, accessibility, internationalization, and localization? Those poor souls have been dead at the bottom of the ocean since the project kickoff meeting. Product managers be like: "We'll definitely prioritize i18n in the next sprint!" *Narrator voice*: They did not, in fact, prioritize it in the next sprint.

Roleplaying At Work