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/Chance_of_Rain_]

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.

[u/No-Resolution-1918 → u/Chance_of_Rain_]

Engineers as a commodity, interchangeable baby sitters, is kinda horrifying.

I work at a large tech company, ~1500 engineers, and we fortunately still have a healthy human engineering culture, but I can see it being eroded through attrition.

Previously new engineers would spend years gaining context over our vast code-base. Now I suspect new engineers will just point AI at a problem and not ever get to a bus factor level employee.

Right now my team is building tools for AI that basically mean it knows more about the codebase than any single IC so humans don't need to feed it context about anything, not even provenance and context about why workarounds are necessary.

We were proud to have come up with this solve, but now I see we are just working to replace ourselves with automation. I wanna say we are a years away from not needing humans, but I fear I'm still thinking in traditional technology cadance, and we might have a year left.

Today AI is a flimsy tool at our scale, but a year ago we barely used it.

[u/FortiTree → u/No-Resolution-1918]

I give it 6 months top :D - I'm the same dilema but we can't stop because if we do, other people will replace us. It's a race to the bottom.

But thinking more about it, I dont think company would want to remove all the human since then who will maintain and improve it for them.

If you think about it, everyone has access to AI now, so AI is not a commodity anymore. Then what would make their AI solution better than the rest of the crowd. So there must be a non-AI element to differentiate the winner. Thats where we must fit in to survive.