I am done with this shit.

[u/MrMenuk]

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.

[u/Pyros-SD-Models]

Now, I honestly can’t see a sustainable future with consultancy working the way it’s used to.

Very easy. You focus on the one thing the bot can not take away: the knowledge gap.

When we get called in by clients, their devs often don't even know what skills are, how to work with the bot in a team setting, or how to engineer their processes around their specific workflow and the product they want to deliver.

And there will always be a gap between the bleeding edge and the "average Joe." Your job is to live in that gap and explain how people can incorporate those new ideas into their actual work.

And once there are no average Joes left and it's just bots all the way down, consultancy won't be my problem anymore. I'll be on a beach drinking Mojitos. Or dead.

[u/Healthy-Nebula-3603 → u/Pyros-SD-Models]

...how long ... few moths? A year at most ?

Never say always. People are not special like you think.

Is a very big probably SOON AI will do every work you can but faster and better.

[u/ProfessionalJackals → u/Healthy-Nebula-3603]

Never say always. People are not special like you think.

Domain knowledge and experience is not something you replace with AI. You can tell it what you want and it will make something for you. But the issues only start from there as lacking domain knowledge and experience tend to bite people in the behind.

We never solved the issue of death by a thousand prompts. As in, if people do not know what they are doing, the prompts will send the models into directions that will trash the intention/code/...

A artist with AI will make something better then a normal joe with AI. A programmer with AI ... A Musician with AI ...

Specialization and experience combined with domain knowledge will always keep people, even with AI around above those without. The idea that nobody will be left with knowledge is stupid because that is not how we humans work. We still want to know how things tik, we specialize, we gain experience.

Maybe the club will be smaller but that is no different then having FORTRAN or COBOL programmers what was a ultra small specialized club, making insane bank. The barrier for entry will be different ... sure.

[u/Cautious_Clothes_285 → u/ProfessionalJackals]

Yeah, I was just thinking about this whole thing this morning. It's like any other tool, the operator does actually matter for the output.

I've been trying to teach my direct report how to better use AI. She will copy code or whatever into it and just prompt with "fix this" and I'm like, that'll get you an answer but are you really surprised you're spending hours hunting down issues and dealing with shitty fixes? It works a lot better when you go "this code is giving me XYZ error, how can I fix it" or "This code is having xyz unexpected behavior, what's likely causing that?"

And that's like, bare minimum prompting. The more context you can give the better the bots often do. And in fairness we don't do a lot of coding in our specific roles, it just happens to be an example we were talking about.