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Ashley Willis-McNamara
@ashley.dev

It’s fair to disagree. But “has never used these models” is an odd takeaway. I use them every day. The post wasn’t about replacing management with AI. It was about building systems around my own blind spots, which, as a neurodivergent person was something I was doing long before AI.

noah@noah.exposed

Ok, after actually reading the blob post, and not just the bluesky post i"m doubling down. The bluesky post was written by someone who has never used these models, but this blog post was written by a flat out incompetent manager who is using it as a crutch instead of attempting self improvement

Ashley Willis-McNamara
@ashley.dev

Long before AI it was notebooks, docs, recurring reminders, sticky notes… whatever worked. Now some of those systems use MCP. The tool changed. The philosophy didn’t.

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noah
@noah.exposed

I suppose that's what I'm getting at. Systems have existed long before LLMs. And they had varying levels of effectiveness. Maybe the point I didn't express well enough is both that LLMs aren't as effective as the article claims compared to these previous methods

noah
@noah.exposed

And if, you were to claim that it is more effective than previous methods at preventing things going missing or lapses in management of your work or life, I would ask you to deeply audit your process. Our management has started to rely on LLMs to manage the release process, and we've never had more

Ashley Willis-McNamara
@ashley.dev

I’m not using an LLM to make management decisions. I’m using it to aggregate information from Slack, Teams, email, docs, and GitHub that I’d otherwise spend a couple of hours collecting by hand. I still read it. I still verify it. I still make every decision.

Ashley Willis-McNamara
@ashley.dev

I use the tools that work for my brain & this works for me. I’m late-diagnosed autistic. I didn’t get decades of support or coping strategies. I had to build those myself. When I find a tool that helps me show up better for the people who rely on me, I use it. MCP happens to be ONE of the tools.