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It is only a matter of time before ChatGPT learns how to ask:

1. What did you do yesterday?

2. What will you do today?

3. Any blockers?

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They might also listen in on meetings, write a summary in a word doc that no one reads, and then adds tasks in whatever kanban one's company uses that you never look at.

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They already do. I was surprised at how accurate the transcription of a recorded meeting came to be. Not sure what they used for transcription, the meeting was recorded in Teams.

To which ChatGPT could respond with:

1. titles of tickets moved within the past 24 hours

2. title of ticket in progress

3. No blockers right now

Not gonna lie, hooking up ChatGPT to Jira so I can query it via Slack or voice recognition would rule. It would certainly be quicker than the slow Jira UI.

All these hundreds-of-GB-memory, several-seconds-to-cold-load Bugzilla knock-offs should provide a second, read-only interface that's just HTML. It'd make them almost tolerable.

ChatGPT seems a little too clever to stick to that script, though. Soon it will learn to answer like the rest of us do:

1. What we discussed I was going to work on yesterday.

2. Continue to do my job.

3. Of course not. If I did, I would have made it known long before this.

The point of the DSU isn't to force the engineer to recite what they did, it's to inform the peers so people can coordinate. I also find that engineers are reluctant to admit being blocked or to ask for help at all. My team gets value from the DSU. I'm sorry if you think the DSU (or the role of SDM) is so useless that it ought to be automated away.

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