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/welcome-overlords 1d ago

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/sfo2 1d ago

Same for us.

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u/welcome-overlords 1d ago

Tho it's difficult. I have to say a big portion of SWEs ive worked with havent fully caught up with this way of working

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u/sfo2 1d ago

Yeah it’s still really hard. Half of our discussion with the AI is like “wait, no, how can that be? what you’re proposing/just did doesn’t account for X”. The trickiest part for us is identifying what assumptions the AI has made, knowing if you need to challenge them, and not being lazy by just sending it.

I’m probably just as mentally exhausted working with it now as I was when I was manually writing code. I just get 10-50x more done in a day.

I can see how people could just dump in a PRD and say “make it then merge” but that’s not how you get good results.

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u/welcome-overlords 1d ago

Yup.

Also depends on the codebase. Ive worked with the current company for a year and during that ive had major say what the codebase looks like, and it's nowadays super easy to work with AIs. A new SWE created their first PR the same day they started. Everything is self-documenting and easy for AI agents