Command Chain Etiquette: Everyone Yells ASAP, But the Dev Says Please to the LLM
Description
A vintage-style line-drawing cartoon showing a four-stage command chain, each figure shouting at the next. A stern old man in a hat and suit (labeled 'PM', framed like a postage stamp) yells 'Do it ASAP!' at a seated grandmother ('TL'), who yells 'Do it ASAP!' with zigzag fury lines at a kneeling figure ('Dev'). The Dev then turns to a small child painting at an easel ('LLM') and asks gently: 'Could you please implement it?' The humor lies in the abrupt tone shift - developers absorb aggressive top-down pressure but address their AI coding assistant with careful politeness, partly superstition that courteous prompts yield better code, partly genuine deference to the entity actually doing the work now
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Twenty years of 'ASAP' never shipped anything faster, but the dev says 'please' to the LLM - you're always politest to whoever can break prod on your behalf
The only contributor receiving a polite ticket is the stochastic one.
asap doesn’t actually mean «now» Comment deleted
It actually means "The deadline was yesterday, but we totally missed it". 😅 Comment deleted
The deadline was yesterday because a manager, chasing a bonus, made an unrealistic commitment and failed to inform the team until the deadline had already arrived. Comment deleted
no clanker ever pinged me on Slack at 11PM Comment deleted