#product

https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID2137653.html

2,137,365 reported bugs/flaws/errors/failures with F5 products. The Execs have to be proud of the milestone when they went over the 2 million mark. Bugs fixed - just a fraction.

Is there a correlation between product support levels and layoffs? Example: Windows 2022 UFR II version 4 drivers for imageRUNNER advance. This is not available now?

I am in the OI product org, director level and was just let go.

CPO seems to just share LinkedIn articles on how AI is coming for our jobs instead of setting any actual strategy. This whole company is a mess.

Has anyone actually seen an LLM AI product in production here? Management is telling us we have to strive towards this. Who is asking for this? What do the customers think?

I’m hearing the 23rd. Lots of Product. No more information. Good luck to all.

Anyone else get this mandate this week from their manager as a SWE? I dont understand how this is even possible or how it can sustain itself. I asked my manager if we have any ideas or plans for what any customer or user would want in an AI feature, he said no, but leadership wants to see AI, so we as engineers need to come up with something. ??? Isnt that products job?

The only "AI feature" we have made as a team in 3 years is an internal RAG chatbot that reads our docs. Some guy also added AI code review because management made him. Thats it. And no one uses any of it, ever.

So how are we gonna make a feature every quarter until the end of time? Eventually we will run out of places to cram it, even if these features go in smoothly (they wont). This place has gotten absolutely insane.

Netflix‘s product division has pink-slipped workers across middle management and admin divisions, Deadline has learned.

Sources familiar with the layoffs note they amount to several dozen, or less than 1% of the 6,000-employee division. The cuts are part of a reorganization, and no senior executives in the product division were let go.

https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-layoffs-product-division-1236717660/

Seriously!?

OpenText reverting back to just Content Server, when will serif font logo come back?

Other product lines are rounding error

It's a sh-t product with a sh-t interface and the legacy knowledge was shitcanned before the KT could be completed. Nobody in OT really knows how it works or how to support it.

What a joke, fido has ~91 different flavors of the same thing, what a clown camp! Is the marketing team wagging the investment management team or what holy shxt!

Hmmm, how many asset allocations can we make up....how about our next attempt to saturate the product market with the same thing is the stock allocations all have red prospectuses and the bond has white prospectuses and any cash has blue prospectuses, well will call it the Fidelity Red, White and Blue allocations.
"Bravo you are promoted"

Freedom Index
Freedom Blend
Freedom Fund
Freedom Retirement Index
Fidelity Sustainable Target Date

But Mr. Customer do you want us to do the same thing in a managed account and pay us a separate fee...

dahhhhhhhhh

Found out recently that the people writing the code behind PlantPAx have been laid off.

Were Dell at CES this year? I've watched a few YT vids about CES and Dell featured in exactly zero. I know JC made some speech about effing up but no product vids.

What is the status of CoreAdvance? It was announced last July and was supposed to be released by now. Are any banks actually running it?

Long time iPhone user but will have to leave because no longer can get a phone with Touch ID. Such a shame. I cannot use a phone with a front camera. I always cover it - as everyone should. Please bring the iphone Se back!!

https://www.netrise.io/xiot-security-blog/when-the-secure-stack-isnt-so-secure-lessons-from-the-f5-incident

I was an employee of F5 for a number of years. Development of F5 products (especially BIG IP NEXT) suffered from a number of significant issues - the largest being ego. The architects and senior/principle developers could do no wrong. Because of their titles, they couldn't be questioned - they didn't have to explain their decisions.

If a test showed a problem, then the problem was that the test was written incorrectly. Go write it so that it passes.

The mindset of the majority of the engineers was coding for the golden path. Because of that it was easy pickings to find issues using the mindset of a hacker - do all those things that had not been protected against. Push and push hard. Three years at F5 were painful - BIG IP NEXT should never never have been released. My director ignored all of the data provided that it was not architected well, not designed well, and coding was an abomination.

BIG IP NEXTs short life is proof of this. It was good to see this article to confirm.

Alteryx’s so‑called “premier” support is a joke. We are forced to repeat version details for every ticket, then receive automated emails at 1 a.m. that never actually help—just delay the process. When we finally get a call, the representatives are brusque, dismissive, and vouching for a product they obviously don’t understand.

After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for just a handful of inquiries, we’re treated like we’re on the wrong end of the telephone.

Alteryx, your support must stop treating us like a flaw in the system and start acting with genuine care and competence.

And this is not going to help. Apparently, these people are not aware that many police departments don’t even respond to vehicle thefts, you are told to come into the police department to make a report. Sounds like desperation to appear like there is a subscription product there, The News didn’t even put it behind the paywall:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2025/12/12/ford-uses-tech-cooperation-with-police-to-thwart-f-150-pickup-thieves/87732049007/

https://share.google/LSmQR8g5i7nTjPmMS

The investor said PepsiCo is being hurt by a "lack of strategic clarity." Do you agree?

https://share.google/ozB3fXLWDmuBn5x5r

Corporate teams just spin papers, PowerPoint and wage a lot of time in meetings
Look at all failed product launches, marketing initiatives, strategic bs, bad acquisitions.
Yet its regions who have to pay the price

Sounds like a leaner version of edX

Slightly off-topic but I thought it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane and find out what folks’ favorite Avaya products have been over the years. Whether that’s Infinity, Oceana, or a CS1000 I’d love to know!

A starter for ten; mine would be Communication Manager; I’m still yet to come across a better PBX out there with the same feature set and reliability. I’d also throw in (and bear with me on this one) Elite Multi Channel - I used to love working on it. EMC was simple but could handle calls, emails and SMS perfectly well for smaller companies; it was far less bloated than something like AACC.

Anyway, that’s me; would love to hear your two cents.

All this hype and push around AI has been going on for over a year now. What all do we have to show for it besides people posting that they did the AI dojo on LinkedIn, and some sloppy chat bot POC's that read internal documentation?

All this talk about agents and an AI future seems like a complete scam with no basis.

“Verizon doesn’t have a problem with its products or services; it has a people problem” - a former employee who tags Dan

Home girl the service is inadequate, and many of us have had to say it was great while trying to improve it.

Let's be real

Had an interesting conversation with one of our customers today that said our CPO spoke to them in a condescending away, brushed aside their concerns, mumbled something about AI and the just walked away. We should probably have our sales team interact with customers only, it seems like we don't have a customer facing product team at all.

Jim Farley was surprised to see how much less components and wiring in the Tesla and Chinese EV. Ford did the tear down of the Model Y in 2021 and it shows how superior Tesla vehicle design is. Farley had no idea and Ford vehicle design stayed the same as it was for 100 years. What a joke.

Wonder how much money they made.

This last restructure - was this with any of the consultancy agencies or home brewed at Nike? I have never seen more chaos in an org - each individual now doing the job titles of three to four people. Product will go to deeper sh-t levels. You ask for sh-t and you get sh-t.

Someone who actually knows how to build products. Also replace engineering leaders. But it’s too late now. stock below $20.

Excited for CX summit and the product keynote.

“Once hyped as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ production of the money-losing EV pickup may be shut down for good.”

May be shut down…should have never been produced.

We are a current FIG client, and while the volume of recent comments and the decline in stock price are concerning, they are unfortunately not surprising. Our experience with Fiserv’s service and support has been extremely disappointing—among the worst we’ve encountered. The products offered are outdated and lack the functionality and efficiency that competitors in the market provide. Based on our conversations with Fiserv clients, there appears to be a widespread eagerness to transition away from Fiserv, which is truly unfortunate but probably the best option.

Already being forgotten about weeks after it’s much hyped “release”. How many millions were spent on this snake oil AOL instant messenger robo-text waste of time? Someone in “design” gon be heading for the soup kitchen once tommy and the boys get wind of this! “BRB workin claims xoxo”

For at least one analyst, the projected revenue for Cl*ver was unrealistically high and the product itself was unloved by users.

Source: search on “yahoo bear f*serv”

Are customer even buying this sh-t to justify all the hype or is leadership getting fired soon?

Did the launch of the Everyday Solutions cards flop? Why are they pushing hard for associates to sign up for exclusive offers but I don’t see anything exclusive about the offers? They all seem pretty basic and not worth it.