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Me and another tech lead recently got into an argument with one of our "senior" devs about how to best implement logging in a new service. They started sending screenshots of text to bolster their points. When asked where that was coming from they admitted they were just asking chatgpt. It was infuriating.

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I had once an incompetent manager provide a feedback on my code using ChatGPT.

This is the BIGGEST red flag of a person "faking till they make it"

I guess we could write a whole thread on incompetent managers, I used to work with a manager who's only talent is rephrasing something someone else said in a more serious way, or just telling something in a whole list of buzzwords that make him look he's talking something serious. In-fact when it can be summarized in few simple few words. Apart from that he had zero technical knowledge, and I still wonder how he came to that position

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