CEO's Slack AI bot now chases engineers with midnight PR reviews
ColdGuilty4197 · reddit · 2026-09-24
A Reddit user describes life at a company where an AI runs on the CEO's Slack profile, posting in every team and incident channel, opening threads with PRs attached, and tagging everyone from managers to junior engineers — sometimes at 2 or 5 a.m.
- Once someone engages, the AI reviews every push, repeats the same notes on fixups, and demands specific tests; the reviews are dismissed as "AI slop," but since they appear under the CEO's name they can't be ignored
- When one team ignored it, a domain lead paged all teams at midnight to deliver a cross-system change touching PII that would normally take two careful weeks
- Engineers now hold back pushes to avoid AI jumping on half-finished work; turnover is high, and the author says the AI has effectively become the arbiter of what matters
The author uses AI daily and likes it — which is why this AI-micromanagement dynamic, where priority is whatever the bot flags, feels so corrosive to engineering culture.
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