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Performance review season can be brutal. You’ve got ten engineers to review, each one requiring thoughtful feedback on a year’s worth of work. Meanwhile, you’re still running sprints, handling incidents, and trying to keep everything else moving.
So you do what everyone does: you block off entire days on your calendar, pull up a blank template, and stare at it while slowly dying inside. Twenty hours later, you’ve produced an AI-generated document that reads like it was written by a committee of robots. Your engineer skims it, nods politely, and you both move on with your lives.
There’s a better way.
Performance Reviews
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