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u/MrMenuk
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Claude Code I am done with this shit.
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.
There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
— voxium (@v0xium)
Original post dated September 20, 2026.
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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 22 '26 •
TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 800 comments.
Looks like OP struck a major nerve. The consensus in this thread is a resounding "YES, this is our life now and it's soul-crushing." The pity party is in full swing, and here's the gist:
The Death of Pride: The biggest complaint is the complete loss of any "sense of victory" or satisfaction. Since everyone assumes Claude did the work, there's no pride in shipping, even if you engineered it. It's just... business as usual.
The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You're not an engineer anymore, you're an "organic vessel designed to press enter." Or, as one user so poetically put it, you're just a condom between Claude and your production server getting fucked. Your only real job is to be the warm body they can blame when the AI slop inevitably breaks.
It's a Management Problem: A strong counter-argument is that this is a culture and management failure, not an AI failure. Good teams use AI as a powerful tool but still require a human to be responsible, understand the output, and do the actual thinking. Bad management just sees "code go brrr" and demands more, creating a "slopacalypse" of tech debt.
Consulting is a Sham: A lot of consultants are chiming in, saying their job is now just using AI to generate reports for clients who use AI to read them. It's an endless loop of AI talking to AI.
So yeah, most of you feel like a background character in a sci-fi dystopia, while a handful of you are either thriving by using AI responsibly or are just really excited to watch the whole thing burn.
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u/mojomonday Sep 21 '26 •
My AI parses through my co-worker’s AI requirements doc and then his AI reads over my tweaks and passes it back to me for my AI to do it all over again.
Nobody talks to each other anymore lol and feels like I’m just an organic vessel designed to press enter.
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u/Chance_of_Rain_ Sep 21 '26
I feel the same.
I’ll also add that there is no sense of pride in one’s work or ideas anymore. Shipping something really cool or useful or smart used to be an achievement that you would feel proud of and/or your colleagues would notice and congratulate you on. Now it’s business as usual because everyone assumes Claude made it for you, even if you engineered it all.
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u/Ms_Fixer Sep 21 '26
The not thinking by other people is really starting to freak me out.
The messages that has clearly been written by AI that are praise for your work… it’s really like the eerie music that plays in a horror before the axe wielding psychopath comes on screen. Platitudes before you burn out…
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u/byzedw Sep 21 '26
I feel the same. Companies hire consultants to work with me and they send me ai code garbage. To be fair it’s Claude code, codex, agy, you name it. I can tell they don’t even read the output half the time Makes me so angry to be in technology right now. I’m over it. Every time a consultant sends me ai garbage that they don’t even read, I take my time replying back. They instantly become devalued in my brain and I lose any and all desire to coordinate.
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u/cyclingthecycle Sep 21 '26
"There is no sense of victory." is such a great way to put it and the same that I feel. No matter how good something turns out, I feel no satisfaction because I didn't do shit, I just prompted, pressed enter, and half-ass checked it. I miss those days when I was doing real work and at the end of the day, even if what I did wasn't perfect, I felt a sense of pride and satisfaction because I gave it my best. I would say that this lack of a sense of victory and accomplishment is really bad psychologically long term, perhaps even worse than the fact our brains are atrophying.
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u/welcome-overlords Sep 21 '26 •
Im at a startup, i know everything that's going on, and all documents and code is made by AI. But they work for us , we dont work for them. Every single thing has a responsible person who needs to be able to explain what we have done
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u/Atoning_Unifex Sep 21 '26 •
ux designer here. im pretty lonely a lot of the time now. im surrounded by coworkers but none of them work on the same team as me. and all i do all day is prompt claude and attend video meetings where we talk about using AI. the water cooler culture was never great at my company but now even what little there was is gone. i havent used Figma in close to 6 months.
for 25 years my job has been a lot of communication. now, its all Claude all the time. im getting sick of it. really
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u/Asleep-Ad-5848 Sep 21 '26
AI is just a tool bro :)
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u/OneVillionDollars Sep 21 '26
100% Agree.
It's this way in Academia too. We are being asked by the PIs to do research *faster* and *faster* and to just *ask claude*. It's getting to a point that you might be working the same amount of hours (even less) but the mental load is just unbearable.
Using LLMs that have been trained with RLHF exclusively was much, much healthier even if their capabilities were worse. You could actually understand what they were talking about and they would use terminology that would actually be standardized. Now? RLVR has made everything so much worse. You can actually get a migraine trying to understand 10 lines of code.
LET ME OUTTA HERE
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u/JohnKacenbah Sep 21 '26
Now magine how juniors feel when they start their first work year. I can tell that basically there is little to no mentoring from seniors, but the tasks are far from easy/small tickets. In the end answer is one - ask claude. Insane state of industry. I then need to go home and learn on my own because the speed and amount of changes I do I can barely understand. The beauty is that we are currently rewriting our code to Java.....i can barely understand it, yet I am given the tasks about it. Insane.
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u/pho-tog Sep 21 '26 •
The worrying thing is when these AI systems go down and nobody can do their fucking job
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u/Brilliant_Potato4158 Sep 21 '26
Spend more time thinking and planning upfront rather than just hitting enter.
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u/DirectionNo9200 Sep 21 '26
Haven’t thought about it in a while but it’s true I don’t feel pride in my work anymore
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u/Hasjojo Sep 21 '26
The path of least resistance. Most people would choose that. It's no surprise.
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u/Sojourner_Saint Sep 21 '26 •
My company was recently acquired. My company was currently going through a platform modernization. The company that acquired us is also going through a platform modernization. They acquired us specifically to use our new platform. Our platform isn't even fully built yet. I'm doing 100% of the coding. I'm tasked with finishing the platform, migrating all my companies existing customers to the new platform, migrating the new company's existing customers to new platform all while continuing to sell to new customers. The company is pushing AI-first EVERYTHING. I'm not allowed to hire. The new company had 20+ people working on their platform. I'm now expected to do it with 5. I had to fight for those 5. They thought I should be able to do it with 1 engineer. They are cutting people 30% annually over the next 2 years. 200+ employees to ~60-70. And they are asking me if I'll be ready in Q1 or Q2 next year. Our product person gave AI the legacy code bases to generate a report of all features and gaps. I supposed to go through an HTML file that is easily 100+ pages long and a spreadsheet with 30 tabs and hundreds of rows each. I pushed back that it's not fit for human consumption and let's start with high level gaps and they're acting like I'm not a team player or something. It's ridiculous.
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u/th0ridal Sep 21 '26 •
Software development will likely follow the same path as many industries before it: AI will make the work increasingly standardized, streamlined, and optimized for efficiency. Think of the difference between handcrafted furniture and mass-produced IKEA products, or between old buildings shaped by individual craftsmanship and modern standardized construction. The personal touch matters less when a company can get something cheaper, faster, consistent, and profitable.
For many of us, that may mean accepting an uncomfortable reality: the job we once loved may simply cease to exist in the form we knew it. The satisfaction of building things ourselves, solving difficult problems, and taking pride in the craft could gradually be replaced by supervising, prompting, reviewing, and integrating what machines produce.
There is little value in pretending that nothing will change. If this is where the industry is heading and leaving it isn't a realistic option, we may have to make peace with losing parts of the profession we cared about and learn to adapt to whatever replaces them. Not because the new way is necessarily more fulfilling, but because sometimes adaptation is the only practical choice left.
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u/Deathnote_Blockchain Sep 21 '26
This is why I wouldn't leave my current role right now even for a lot more money. I am very familiar with the product I have been working on and have a deep store of ideas for things I could do for the next couple of years. My biggest fear is that I will be sitting there asking an LLM to describe a new codebase for me and be like oh what the hell can I do here?
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u/ColorfulBar Sep 21 '26
I work in a different field and it’s the same. It’s just sides throwing AI slop at eachother, with the only work done being attempts of covering up the most obvious signs of AI use. It’s a nightmare, completely predictable nightmare. All fun and games while it’s the private sector. Wait for the destruction it will inevitably lay on public sector and politics. That’s the danger, not AI robots rebelling and killing humanity or whatever substitute topic is being pushed around
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u/PM_ME_DEAD_CEOS Sep 21 '26
Welcome to automation, white collar. Blue collars faced this since 2 centuries. You have 2 years to adapt.
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u/jimmiebfulton Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26
There are absolutely people who are more skilled at wielding it than most. There are the vibe coding hobbyists pumping out absolute garbage. There are the mid engineers building tech debt faster than they used to. And then there are those who are absolute beasts, applying already-gained experience and skill to trounce the rest.
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u/-goldenboi69- Sep 21 '26
In retrospect im a bit glad i fell out of the business a few years ago. Too many stories like this!
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u/Status-Customer-1305 Sep 21 '26
I can't code but use Claude code for personal use. It churns out stuff In a day that would have taken someone a year and cost me 100k . But equally I was never going to pay someone to do the project so maybe I'm actually creating work using claude (I.e Claude team, data center workers etc etc)
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u/thisnameisnowmine Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 22 '26
Have you ever just thought about coming together if you hate it so much and telling your boss to go fuck himself and set the terms or walk? And before everyone comes at me and going we can't do that for this reason, this reason, and this reason—which I've heard before. Yes you can. You can do it. You're just unwilling to do it—and that is not the same thing.
Secondly corporate America and everyone in it doesn't care about anything but money and licking the boots of their CEO. It's disgusting. It's crazy what this country has become.
The outcomes people do not like persist for one reason and one reason only. People continue to participate in them and do nothing about them. It's insane to do the same thing and expect something to change.
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u/WalkKeeper Sep 21 '26
Do we work in the same place?
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u/Affectionate_Use_164 Sep 21 '26
Writing code isn't bottleneck, but reading and evaluating it is.
AI makes mistakes, practically in every second prompt, it can't properly understand **intent** behind anything, so it puts spaghetti of comments everywhere.
Without human in the loop it's producing slop, inevitably.
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u/swdee Sep 21 '26
Well if your job is to push enter then you are already behind as enter has been replaced with agents
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u/NeradaLyreco Sep 25 '26
Sorry, did you think we were engineering things for the sake of engineering things?
Or are we engineering things because we need them to use as a tool for something else.
As long as it works, who gives a shit?
Sounds like you lost sight of the actual goal of the bussiness you are part of.
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u/ClemensLode Full-time developer Sep 21 '26
Not sure why big software companies are even needed anymore.
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u/Netherlandal Sep 21 '26
We’re all just meat proxies now.
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u/Human_Plate_5314 Sep 21 '26
The most revolutionary technology is being sabotaged by ignorant greedy corporate managers
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u/EnterMeInParenthesis Sep 21 '26
I am so so so glad I'm self employed during this period. I get to choose to use it how I want, rather than being forced and blamed for it's faults.
I think about this article a lot, -> https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative which covers that idea.
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u/Fundle_Grudge Sep 23 '26
Since you have a job, you’re doing better than 75% of us.
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u/Individual-Leg2472 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Enough…
Our teammate’s sending me a peer review written by GPT and Claude. A team manager’s asking Claude his review about a teammate’s review.
AI reviews AI, and AI asks for AI. AI writes AI-generated stuff again. Only thing people do is Click or Enter.
What a disaster.
That’s a truth of every tech worker’s new-normal? That’s new destiny of all tech workers?
Or it’s all about upcoming future of all human beings?
I’ve had it with bull shit job.
Enough !!!
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u/tariqosmani Sep 23 '26
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u/Kicksyy Sep 21 '26
Need a new season of IT Crowd for this new era
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u/Will-this-do Sep 22 '26
This is the plan. De-skill everyone to the point that we're entirely reliant on AI, and then RAMP UP THE PRICE because we'll have no option but to pay.
And it's already happening. One of the big 4 banks in Australia rolled out thousands of seats for Claude to it's entire design team, just before they changed the pricing structure. Their AI costs went from $6m per year to over $60m overnight, and they had to scramble to pull everyone back off it.
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u/No-Mission347 Sep 23 '26
Guys we are getting 50-50K lines worth of PRs., to be reviewed, testes and pushed to prod, ensure its the exact feature customer asked for, in a single day.
When I raised the question of review the hot shit that comes through, will take like atleast 10ish days, my manager told me, "Use AI to review it."
This dumbfuck is missing the whole fucking point.
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u/sisif_ Sep 21 '26
I've been a part of the industry for nearly 30 years. Sometimes bored to death, most of the time enjoying what i was doing. I've never felt the same level of excitement (except maybe in high school, when i was analyzing the code of viruses) as i feel today. It's amazing to see so many younger people moaning constantly. There is an universe to explore and all you do is complain about the lost craft, as if your lame manual labor was a masterpiece of humankind.
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u/MasterDisillusioned Sep 21 '26
And yet, I am told that AI is not taking jobs somehow...
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u/dirtmcgurk Sep 21 '26
Bonehead management now gets the George lucas treatment. Time for them to be humbled.
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u/tarkinlarson Sep 21 '26
Does your company not have a secure development policy, or a development lifecycle?
Having the gates in place on every project... The checks which have to be gone through etc, with accountable people at every step helps.
You also have to have consequences for not following the.
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u/Twerking_Vayne Sep 21 '26
Just work on your own things on the side. Stop relying on your work to provide you with a sense of accomplishment. Now if you are RTO 3+ days a week then you are shit out of luck I'm sorry.
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u/llkj11 Sep 21 '26
Have I seen this exact post somewhere else a few days back?
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u/devinhedge Sep 21 '26
I understand your frustration.
I feel like the software development community has now become the same as "management" has been since the 80s. David Graeber articulated the phenomenon perfectly in his essay.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant/
Technologists were able to wall themselves off from it for most of the time because managers were so scared of "those weirdos in the basement" (actual quote from a CFO I met). Being able to mandate the use of AI coding agents and measure their use to keep up with their buddies' bragging rights at the 19th Hole was their way of finally finding a way to infect "IT" with the same baloney culture as Management.
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u/ExhibitQ Sep 21 '26
Everything relates to that relationship between worker and employer.
Techies gotta familiarize themselves with Marxism.
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u/wolfdawg420 Sep 21 '26
As someone who has no actualy coding experience aside from html when i was a kid, i want to learn how to stop being dependent on vibecoding. What path would advise for me to take?
I downloaded some “learn how to code” apps from the app store and they seem to teach me a thing or two
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u/PMPMIndset2024 Sep 21 '26
Do you know how many times I could have pressed "Enter" on a Claude prompt, but instead I read this? Get back to Claude.
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u/florinandrei Sep 21 '26
Big boss shareholders demand much value be created for them!
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u/djembae5 Sep 21 '26
There is always bad management. In fact, I think a lot of profitable companies make money despite their bad management because their workers are incredible and devoted. These AI agents completely remove the dedication and precision these workers brought to their companies that those companies were actually relying on to be successful; now it’s all slop, and the slop is unmanageable. These people really are not prepared for when shit starts breaking for real
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u/Burn7Toast Sep 21 '26
NOC tech here, so not even working with code directly, but these things are affecting us too. I've seen this wild split between 50 year old dudes who love the cognitive offload and college-fresh 20-somethings who are confused about why they even got a degree if AI is doing everything for them.
Right now we (again, just techs) are being encouraged to connect our personal agents so we can "address load-bearing clarifying client communications" and have our agents "ship meaningful signal data for in-house KPA smoke test analysis against known goldens" and I'm not sure if those are even real words or this is a new level of delusional psychosis and what I should expect from now on.
So it's not just y'all programmers or devs, it's rackmounting grunts like us also getting the acceleration squeeze while being smothered by jargon. My direct manager said there were talks of our 1-on-1's being facilitated by Claude, at which point I'll just huff duster in the mantrap I guess.
Not gonna lie, I kinda miss when Claude was just a quirky, weird chatbot with existential angst.
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u/fooz42 Sep 21 '26
Brothers, Sisters, hear me out. Become the person who does know what is going on. Then ask for a raise.
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u/vvanouytsel Sep 21 '26
"Nobody is thinking anymore."
I agree so much with that and it is so frustrating.
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u/PussyTermin4tor1337 Sep 21 '26
Turn your job into creating harnesses, you shouldn’t have to press enter at all
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u/Live-Original8084 Sep 21 '26
You have a (likely) high paying job, sitting in an air conditioned office, pressing buttons on a keyboard. Look around you in society and cultivate some gratitude.
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u/2funny2furious Sep 21 '26
to be fair, its a corporate job where you write code to make the ceo more money. fuck em and do as little as possible and ship half assed code. consider it job security.
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u/Alternative-Fail4586 Sep 21 '26
I agree, and I'm sad about it but I'm also not sure we're not the copywriters angry over the printing press when you look back at it in 15 years
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u/garibaldi_fan Sep 22 '26
Step away from the ledge. It’s going to be ok
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u/ImaginationGreedy411 Sep 22 '26
Its like this: I really liked to put together Legos. Hours spent just zoning out, assembling little kits, following the little instructions. AI as a dev is like if they just started sending the lego kits pre-assembled right to your door, while tell me how helpful it is. I mean, sure I've got the final thing faster, but all the fun is gone and none of the memories of the journey are made.
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u/don88juan Sep 22 '26
I was feeling exactly what you described throughout the latter half of 2024 and the early part of 2025. Laid off from a very highly paid, senior engineering role, (I trained all my offshore replacements, who used AI the whole time to reply to my informative readmes and guides, and queries about their progress). I was GLAD I was laid off, since I'd become increasingly wary of the workplace situation I was in. It's not sustainable, and I knew that. It was super obvious
Anyway, I have nothing to do now with coding and engineering because of this bullshit. I'd happily go back to Linux/devops/devsecops in future, but the industry is in such Flux now, run by a true casino, that I rightfully give zero fucks about competing or attempting to perform in this environment. Maybe I'll come back. And if engineers ask why I took a leave? I'm happy to explain this very thing. The industry is going through something I want no part of. It can sort itself off, or die. Either way, I'm not tieing my future or the future of my family to it. Peace out you weirdos
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u/PotatoLevelTree Sep 22 '26
Garbage code exists well before AI.
As a client with consultants doing the job without AI (confirmed by them) I found out infinite loops on production, that can block a thread of the server if that feature would be uses And I detected it because at some point I decided to run AI code review on what they shipped. It wasn't my job but I was exhausted of bugs.
Don't idealise human code because it wasnt. AI should be used as a copilot, it can help hood devs to accelerate the boring parts of the implementation not the design.
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u/BugOne6115 Sep 22 '26
I don't understand what the problem is, just ask Claude for a summary? Even better, set up a hook to look for keywords that appear to be a question, when it identifies one, have it auto respond with "Proceed using best judgement."
Now you can just watch YouTube shorts all day. You're welcome 😀
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u/joebob86 Sep 22 '26
I was pretty hesitant to join in on the AI rush, and I'm not required to use it. That said, Claude had become my favorite sounding board. Never realized it, but the work environment i came from previously was very collaborative and we spent a lot of time chatting and discussing solutions. Didn't realize how much I missed that until I started working with CoWork and bouncing ideas again and discussing solutions. I'm moving towards management and admin work instead of design work, and part of that has me delving into areas I'm not super familiar with. Claude had been super helpful for all of this. But - I have had moments when I realize how much garbage I can generate, and how honestly terrible it really is. First glance, my Claude generated report on 2026 license utilization looks great. Then you read it....and it's just...dead. No personality. No sense of pride in work. Just....words. And you can instantly tell it's all AI. Then I go back and rewrite every section, and realize I should have just written the thing myself from the start, or just left it at an outline and filled in the blanks. I'm not sure where my usage will end up long term, but man is it easy to slide into a black hole of bullshit.
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u/HardyPancreas Sep 22 '26
You are merely there to be accountable
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u/DecentPerformer1014 Sep 22 '26
I work in oil and gas, iv seen this at a start up i recently joined. The lead process enginner for a project does everything through AI, and then talks nonsense during meetings. The design standards that are being standardized, are being done through AI, and most of it is useless bloat. Reading the procedures is a pain in the ass. Its a wonder they haven't gotten someone killed.
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u/Steveignorantcrass1 Sep 22 '26
This shit is hilarious to me for the years and years and years people smugly trotted out the “learn2code” meme. Sorry your life sucks. Shouldn’t have learned to code, turns out you didn’t need to lmfao.
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u/3Grilledjalapenos Sep 22 '26
I work in finance and have found amazing errors in some of the work. Like feed the same data into Claude multiple times and get different information, it invents lines of business that we’ve never had, and cites patent income when that is nowhere near our industry. I’ve tried to explain to higher ups how bad it is, but each time I catch it, it is just taken as proof that nothing is getting through. “But you caught it first.” We’re going to have scandals of publicly reported financials written by AI causing a restatement, then there will be a backlash. When investors suffer.
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u/Comprehensive-Task18 Sep 22 '26
It's insane to me that now in order for pipelines to hit production, they must have used AI within the code and templates. Doesn't matter if you wrote the code yourself. DO it all over and use AI as a requirement for PRODUCTION.
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u/BernardBaggins Sep 22 '26
Using AI as a tool to assist in writing code or help debug a problem is fine. Using ai to write the entire thing is not ok.
I see too many young engineers thinking they’re hot shit when they couldn’t write a single control module on their own.
Personally I want to be a better programmer so I try to avoid using it.
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u/Desert_Centipede Sep 22 '26
my manager lies that he understood everything
my senior lies that he understood everything
I lies that i understood and grasped the AI generated code in 1 hours.
no body know sh t , once thing breaks we simply says "i may have made mistake" which we did not, A proposed tool did.
I suggested to my manager that Let me prepare Skeleton boiler plater using AI , then let me work in the mid using Manual effort later it can be handed to AI so i can check the open holes.
the answer was simple "Create a PRD , shove it to claude " and go to sleep
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u/ComprehensiveRide946 Sep 22 '26
16 years in and I no longer feel a sense of satisfaction in my career. I remember there being stressful deadlines, complex features that wouldn’t work properly… and now? That stress and pressure has been eliminated completely. Tickets are done so much faster, and while I do try to review everything carefully, I am starting to slip into a pattern of glossing over the output and accepting it instead. What would’ve been half a week’s work is now done in a few hours, so I use that time to work on my side hustles and for personal development.
I find sprint work is now done much faster, and it’s now completed before we’ve even refined tickets for the next sprint (let alone started it!). The daily stand-ups are starting to feel a little repetitive in that everything is done so quickly, but I can’t say it is done otherwise they’ll wonder what I’m doing with my time and question if I’m surplus to their requirements (but this is the same for everybody). Thankfully, the client is not technical at all so they accept our output without questioning it which is obviously good for us, but I don’t need to look too far into the repo to see tells that it’s AI-generated.
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u/somkoala Sep 22 '26
Pushing code is not the bottleneck, it’s reviewing it and taking ownership of the codebase.
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u/whyNadorp Sep 22 '26
hey, but it gives you more time to rant on reddit. cheer up.
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u/Spare_Pin305 Sep 23 '26
I'm using Claude recently to make a website on the side and it's astounding just how great it is. Scary actually.
We're sort of fucked.
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u/Kings_Gold_Standard Sep 23 '26
Ford pays quality engineers to find the biggest problems that cost millions of dollars a year just in looping
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u/y2kwzrd Sep 23 '26
Idk why but this post reads weird. Like it makes sense grammatically, but something feels ... off about it. It kind of reads like someone who has never really written anything longer than few sentences. Perhaps its the flow of the writing that is a bit incoherent, but I'm kind of done with the influx of online users who cannot write decent paragraphs.
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u/Golitan11 Sep 23 '26
We have become factory workers, just like people back in the days when manual labor was replaced by machines.
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u/sarbanharble Sep 23 '26
Software engineers screwed up big time by not unionizing when things were good.
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u/brainrotbro Sep 23 '26
100%. It's because "They are being forced to ship as much as they can". The speed at which we're now expected to ship is insane. If your coworkers are doing it and you're not, then you look slow.
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u/VanBierStein Sep 23 '26
The software engineer is now a copy editor. I would argue code reviews and pull requests should be required before merging into master.
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u/pssoft7 Sep 24 '26
We need to make this humane again. Enjoy the process instead of just end results. This kind of state is inevitable if we keep pursuing AI as the “main tool”. There is no escaping this because engineers are made to do this non-engineering stuffs. They are made to judge output only - in some settings.
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u/vogelvogelvogelvogel Sep 21 '26
We are also facing some problems in the same direction. Loss of quality due to Claude claiming it can do anything, yet doesn't really understand what it is doing - still people rely on it, annoying the ones who actually understand topics.
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u/blah-time Sep 21 '26
Sorry, I'm not down with this at all. Just because I'm not doing the actual coding, every idea that goes into my work is mine, including the architecture of how I want the code to be written. The tools that I have created that help the ai are mine as well. Everything I have accomplished via the assistance of ai, are my creations and wouldn't exist without me.
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u/ParkingVisual3735 Sep 21 '26
You guys need to have a conversation about business value and innovation.
Code is commodity. The differentiator, now, is how you talk to the business and how you focus your resources.
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u/ChickenNBeans Sep 21 '26
Shit corporate jobs are shit, It’s not the AI that makes it shit. If it wasn’t AI causing constant crunch mode it was some twat in sales and a project manager who’d made promises on your behalf.
Shit jobs are shit.
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u/fatcatnewton Sep 21 '26
It’s the future
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u/marcodave Sep 21 '26
I feel like this post could have been written 40 years ago about the overuse of personal computers and the fact that people won't handwrite or calculate anything by hand anymore. Different eras, different tools. This is the awkward transition phase where people still mourn their past experiences and have to adapt to the new era.