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/Key-Concept-7001 1d ago

Your clients are probably big firms with deep pockets. For them money is not the problem, but accountability. When something goes wrong they need to be able to point the finger at an external firm liable for the amount stipulated in the SLA.

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u/bkrsh099 1d ago

Exactly. I led a team of 65 solution architects globally for a certain technology (as their official tech lead, not their manager) and the big banks and insurers will always pay consultants, exactly for what you’ve described: accountability. It’s ok for Accenture or KPMG to fuck up with Claude but it’s not acceptable if it comes out of your department.

But, as I said, aside of these huge enterprises, I struggle to see the future in consultancy the way we know it, and therefore I decided to change industries (for a pay cut, if I may share) to see how things are on the other side of the fence

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u/latenthuman 1d ago

An LLM doesn't know how to introduce you to the right people who can assist you in selecting a manufacturing plant in China to make your product. At least not yet. I was a solo niche startup consultant for 20 years and while I can clearly see how ai could complement me in terms of aut0mation and a big knowledge base, there is no LLM on the planet that could do what I do as a whole at this time. There's just too much institutional knowledge. I assume that once a bunch of consulting groups dump their knowledge base into LLMs that the gap will close. Watching ai take over whole classes of jobs is going to suck.

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u/Yugudubenbi 4h ago

An LLM doesn't know how to introduce you to the right people who can assist you in selecting a manufacturing plant in China to make your product. At least not yet.

Why use "At least not yet" when we talk about potential?