This is exactly why management is hard to unit test!
You are absolutely right. If you 'Shield & Deliver' every time, you risk becoming the 'Yes Man' who absorbs infinite scope creep for someone's vanity project (Empire Building).
The 'Correct' answer actually depends entirely on the Nature of the Request:
Legitimate Business Crisis? -> Shield & Deliver
Noise/Politics? -> Save the Sprint
Distinguishing between the two before you act is the master skill.
I think keeping both paths as valid strategies with different 'Trade-off' warnings or having 2 different contexts is the right move to reflect that ambiguity
When the traffic was peak, I did use LLM to polish my responses.
Later, I started replying without an LLM.
No, AI agents at work. This is an individual at work!
You are absolutely right. If you 'Shield & Deliver' every time, you risk becoming the 'Yes Man' who absorbs infinite scope creep for someone's vanity project (Empire Building).
The 'Correct' answer actually depends entirely on the Nature of the Request: Legitimate Business Crisis? -> Shield & Deliver Noise/Politics? -> Save the Sprint
Distinguishing between the two before you act is the master skill. I think keeping both paths as valid strategies with different 'Trade-off' warnings or having 2 different contexts is the right move to reflect that ambiguity