--- title: PO gets slandered. | daily.dev description: A comic-style sketch pokes fun at the eternal tension between product owners and engineers: a PO downplays a broken login button and pushes vague priorities... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/po-gets-slandered--igp10qrmq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PO gets slandered. | daily.dev og:description: A comic-style sketch pokes fun at the eternal tension between product owners and engineers: a PO downplays a broken login button and pushes vague priorities... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/po-gets-slandered--igp10qrmq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iGp10qRmq.png og:image:alt: PO gets slandered. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PO gets slandered. **[Programmers are also human](https://daily.dev/sources/programmersarealsohuman)** · 1 min read · 8 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comic-style sketch pokes fun at the eternal tension between product owners and engineers: a PO downplays a broken login button and pushes vague priorities while the dev team obsesses over database stability, microservices dying from 'quick syncs,' and whether tests actually run. The humor escalates with devs mocking a PO's weekend prototype (built with Java and an AI tool called Junie) for lacking observability, security, and an SBOM, then spiraling into absurd engineering tangents like rewriting Docker in Rust for a 1% speed gain and shaving 40ms off terminal startup while the actual admin dashboard remains broken. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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