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Thread 2: Business Stakeholders AI Slop

Thread 2: Business Stakeholders AI Slop

Platform

Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringManagers/comments/1s4o5b0/how_are_you_handling_your_business_stakeholders/

Key Excerpt

“If we won’t build it, business says they’ll do it with Claude… then we get pressed into taking over incomplete and sloppy work and add it to our already fatigued and delayed backlog.”

Why This Matches Ryva ICP

Clear EM-level pain in a cross-functional software org: unclear ownership boundaries, invisible takeover work, and backlog drift caused by decisions outside engineering workflow.

Underlying Problem

Prototype-to-production handoff has no explicit ownership contract, so hidden rework keeps falling into engineering.

Suggested Public Reply (Copy)

You need an explicit boundary artifact, not just policy. "Prototype allowed" and "production ownership accepted" should be two different states with named owners and acceptance criteria. Without that split, your backlog becomes a cleanup queue.

Suggested DM Idea (Copy)

The handoff gap you described is exactly where teams lose weeks. I can share a simple intake format that makes ownership and production-readiness explicit before engineering inherits anything.