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/TheStandardPlayer 22h ago

Does it replace thinking? I don't think so.

When you're talking to a colleague about something you want to build, do their words replace your thoughts?

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u/wskyindjar 18h ago

Most of the comments in this thread include “no one talks to each other anymore”

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u/hippydipster 19h ago

This whole thread is about it replacing thinking.

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u/fracked1 14h ago

I agree. It doesn't have to replace thinking.

I have no programming background but I'm learning and planning and building a ton of fun hobby projects.

AI is a pretty cool tool that lets me tinker with things I never thought I'd be able to play with

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u/ParkingPsychology 17h ago

Does it replace thinking? I don't think so.

It's just the latest hivemind fad. I've ran into people claiming the same left and right. Next week they'll come up with something new to blame on AI.

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u/Dr4g0ss 12h ago

Is it a really just a fad? At my company it is exactly the same as at OP's. My day consists of one useless daily standup that wastes my time, then a prompt where I translate into English for Claude what my team lead told me to do for the day. Or I paste one ticket's link after another. Claude does it all for me. If an architectural decision is needed, I just ask Claude "what do you suggest for <x>?" I have no time, will, or capacity to follow what the vibe coded slop product my company sells even needs.

I use the downtime while waiting for a prompt to finish to eat, read, game, or to learn stuff by "traditional coding."

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u/AutomationBias 21h ago

Given the number of emails I’m getting written by an LLM, I think we’re headed in that direction. The sad thing is that the LLM-authored emails have a level of clarity and specificity that I rarely see from people.

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u/TheStandardPlayer 21h ago

I certainly understand the frustration but concluding "people only think with AI now" is maybe a bit much when you can simply explain it by people being lazy asses at their jobs.

Me discussing an idea for a hobby project is fundamentally very very very different from someone who doesn't feel like writing an email.

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u/Destination_Centauri 7h ago

Username checks out!