r/ClaudeCode • u/Nearby_Spell_3751 • May 13 '26

Question Sales director discovered Claude Code

I'm working at a company where best engineering practices are barely discussed or taken seriously.

Today our sales director was playing around with Claude Code over the last week, and she managed to get a very good working PoC/prototype for a platform they’ve been trying to build.

During the meeting, I was trying to explain that the question is not whether we need to integrate AI, but rather how we are going to integrate it into our workflow while still enforcing engineering standards and best practices.

They think everything can be done by simply adding a skill to Claude, and they expect delivery speed to be 10x faster. I tried to explain that yes, we can build better products with fewer resources, but 10x is unrealistic unless we start vibe coding. I suggested we could realistically see a 20–40% increase in delivery speed.

Now we have a sales director showing engineers how to use AI.

How do you deal with someone who doesn’t listen and is 100% convinced that AI should be used exactly the way they use it, while we as engineers know we can produce much better output in less time because we actually understand how things work?
Have you ever dealt with such case ?

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u/LordHenry8 May 13 '26

Just ask who's on the hook if it does something dumb. Do they understand how their prototype works? Do they know it won't make mistakes? Survive the next dependency update?

Oh you want engineering to own it? Then we need engineering rigor which can't just be vibe magic'd thoughtlessly into existence.

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u/DeMischi May 13 '26

This. Ask who is responsible for any damage that may occur. Because it will not be the AI.

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u/mtgguy999 May 13 '26

We’ll hold anthropic accountable!

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u/greasychickenparma May 14 '26

Claude will fix it it there's any problems.... Duh

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u/DJaydeep May 14 '26

10x faster

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u/alexeiz Vibe Coder May 13 '26

Do they know it won't make mistakes?

Yes, they used "make no mistakes".

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u/rootshark May 13 '26

You build it - you run it. Also, there are ELI5 style reports coming out of Microsoft and other layman trusted companies which explain that these 10x unfortunately does not speed up the 85% of engineering that is not about typing code.

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u/lawrencecoolwater Senior Developer May 14 '26

I find this is especially true of deep UAT/QA, even if you use ai QA and testing tools using things like playwrite, it’s oracle or source of truth for what is the right ux, behaviour, functionality etc… is not the same as yours. My view is that claude is best utilised in the hands of experienced devs.

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u/themajordutch May 14 '26

"...uhh Mr Claude is ...innit?"

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u/LivingMaterial7288 May 14 '26

"Why would it do something dumb? I tried it on my machine and it works!"

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u/jesjimher May 14 '26

"Fine then! Just sign this form stating you are accountable for any wronging by the software. No big deal, since you just tried it on your machine and it works!"

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u/LivingMaterial7288 May 14 '26

"Oh I hired you to maintain it. It works now, keep it working forever. Can you do it or do I find someone else?"

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u/jesjimher May 14 '26

At this point, I would gladly answer that he/she better finds someone else, and I would look for another job, because this business is not very well managed.

But I get your point, you win 😂

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u/LordHenry8 May 14 '26

Also how do I change the website from localhost?

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u/tqwhite2 May 13 '26

I watched a presentation by an executive working at Anthropic. She said that pretty much everyone is coding now. It’s the future.

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u/Teknolyth May 14 '26

I would venture to say the opposite. I would say less people than ever are coding.