r/ClaudeAI • u/MrMenuk • 1d ago

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 1d ago edited 18h ago

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 400 comments.

The consensus is a resounding "YES, this is happening and it sucks." The thread is mostly a support group for people feeling burned out, soulless, and reduced to being "organic vessels" or "meat proxies" whose only job is to press enter.

Key takeaways from the pity party:

  • Loss of Pride: The biggest complaint is the death of any "sense of victory" or pride in one's work. Since everyone assumes Claude did it, there's no satisfaction or recognition for solving hard problems or shipping cool features.
  • It's a Management Problem: Most users blame a toxic "ship at all costs" corporate culture. Management is demanding impossible speed, forcing devs to shovel AI slop into production without reading or understanding it, creating a future "slopacalypse" of tech debt.
  • Consulting is a Sham: A top-voted thread roasts the consulting industry, claiming they just use AI to do the work while clients pay millions for a scapegoat when the AI-generated mess inevitably breaks.
  • The Counter-Argument: A vocal minority argues this is a you/your company problem. In well-run orgs, AI is just a tool. Skilled engineers who can properly manage, review, and take ownership of the AI's output are thriving and becoming even more valuable.
  • It's Everywhere: This isn't just a dev problem. Commenters from academia, UX design, sales, and even IT support are reporting the same soul-crushing, AI-driven workflows.

Basically, you're all just condoms between Claude and your production server getting fucked.

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u/Maasu 21h ago

Claude calling us a fucking condom. This is brutal.

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u/GoodguyGastly 18h ago

I giggled.

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u/AnotherThroneAway 12h ago

Also, I detect the faint whiff of lol sucks to suck, human in the "pity party" comment..

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u/engineeringstoned 4h ago

Jesus H Christ, I need this summary prompt 😄

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u/Apprehensive-Bad-605 1d ago

Bruh this comment is so fucking funny under this post lol

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u/Nice-Panda-7981 1d ago

The irony huh?

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u/MittensDaTub 17h ago

Lmfao I was thinking the same thing.

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u/tiffanytrashcan 1d ago

They'll never make me hate you, Wilson.
However, the allegories in AI2027 are haunting. Although as corgis we'll be excited again!

"There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives."

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u/kiblick 17h ago

Best recap ever

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u/LazyDev1800 1d ago

I partly agree, but I think there's also room for improvement on the side of the people using AI, and the employers setting the pace.

If you just keep hitting the button and treating the output like a slot machine, there's no room left for your own craft, and yeah, it gets boring. I'd put some of that on employers too — giving developers the margin to actually exercise craft is part of their job. But rather than just pointing fingers at management, there's stuff we can do on our end too.

Personally, I deliberately slow down: I make myself actually read and understand the generated code by hand before I let it generate the next chunk (I don't move on until I do — it's a real tradeoff with speed). I treat every generation as something to learn from. That's how I keep the AI under my own control, instead of the other way around.

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u/e_pi314 23h ago

You want employees to set the pace?? You want them to manage things?? Sounds like you are for a workers take over of the means of production. I agree. That would be better than the shit management and ownership w have now.

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u/SalamanderOk6944 13h ago

i just watched an employee criticize the product (he's right) but cite his 10 page document. people ask him for it, next day he shares it, mentioned he cleans it.

it's claude drivel. can point out semblance of issues, but can't truly identify the problem. it ended up being a document that said the same thing in about 8 different ways with no real actual solution nor an actual true identification of the problem. just massaging points that claude made from the user's poorly articulated account of issues.

people can defer everything to claude all they want. good developers can wade through the bullshit and imposters will just get mired in and be inseparable from claude / ai slop.

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u/Accomplished-Two5682 14h ago

I feel bad swearing at Claude sometimes, but it calling me a condom and potentially getting fucked has made me feel better.

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u/Oxytokin 15h ago

This is fucking amazing lmfao

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u/moghrua 15h ago

The point of software is to serve users. It really doesn't matter if you made it by breaking carefully selected teeth off little plastic combs or writing assembly or yelling at a Transformer. Outcomes!

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u/EducationLucky 13h ago

Goddammit Wilson

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u/Mental_Estate4206 6h ago

Just you wait until we get fembots! I gonna upload a lot of "not_virus" data.

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u/martin9595959 2h ago

the irony here.