u/Green-Fishing4339 — reddlx

Confession. I've been a PM for 3 years and I've been faking AI knowledge in standups for 6 months

Ok this is kinda unflattering but I'm posting anyway.

I've been a PM for 3 years now and for the past six months my engineers keep throwing around stuff like "agentic eval harness" or "RAG with reranking" in standup and I just nod, write it down, then google everything later.

Last week one of my eng leads asked me a direct question about it in standup and I completely froze, mumbled something that didn't make sense. after the meeting my staff eng pulled me aside and told me, pretty kindly tbh, that I should probably do a proper course on this stuff. he wasn't wrong.

How did you guys close the gap without making it obvious to your team that you'd let yourself fall this far behind. did you just power through some courses on the side or did you bring it up openly with your manager.

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u/Green-Fishing4339 — 7 days ago

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Person leaves, you revoke okta but they had direct signups in SaaS tools. how do you actually catch all the license waste?

So whenever someone leaves the company we go through the usual offboarding, revoke Okta, GSuite, Slack and all the connected stuff that's tied to SSO. The problem is every quarter we still find these random SaaS subscriptions nobody knew about, usually some tool an employee signed up for directly and expensed on their corp card.

Then finance comes asking why we're still paying for some random tool months after the person left and we honestly don't have a good answer. We can audit and clean it up but that's reactive, we're always finding this stuff after the bleeding has already happened for months.

I'm wondering if anyone here has a real workflow for catching the shadow signups before they become a finance problem.

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u/Green-Fishing4339 — 7 days ago

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