Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator(tability.io) |
Show HN: An AI-based OKRs generator(tability.io) |
And for this BS, he gets paid a million. And here I am coming up with actual solutions to real problems for the company, and yet getting paid less. Wtf!
If I am working at a place that wants me to write OKRs I will be very happy to have something like this to help me out.
Done properly they should be the equivalent of "we're gonna slam dunk this thing we think is important to do by smashing these X and Y targets" so everyone high fives and is super pumped and energised making it happen.
Now they've turned into "you should do this because we tell you to and we will track you as you do it" and so everyone feels like they have no autonomy.
I didn’t really mind the “drop everything” bit, we were looking for product-market fit after all, but when performance reviews come around and I killed 3 of those goals, sofa kind did 7 and spaced 10 it’s a situation where narcissists will convince management is half full and that mine is half empty.
It won't be perfect, but usually the AI can come up with a good draft.
That being said, the goal for us was to help people get a draft plan that they can tweak later. For instance, I don't know anything about PR, but I can ask the AI to generate a plan to get press and use that as a starting point.
We've also experimented with an AI that looks at past data to provide better advice, but you'd have to be in the product to see it.
To me it feels a bit like structuring a JS/TS app. You've got powerful tools, but it can quickly become a mess without a good structure around it.
My general recommendation: no one should have more than 7 KRs to track on a weekly basis. And an OKR plan should be a 3x4 matrix: 3 Objectives and 4 KRs/Objective.
Such is the stupidity of middle management.