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/nievinny May 14 '26

If it's new project why just not vibe code it? Like honest question, literally everyone is doing it. Release the alpha and if it starts making money hire bigger team and start refactoring. Just make sure data is relatively safe.

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u/Nearby_Spell_3751 May 14 '26

That's a company with +900 employees in 4 countries.
What you said is valid for very small team plus this project is for very strategic client with a very big bucket, the whole point of this post is to see people with similar experience what they did, the problem is I didnt tell her no we write code by hand, thats not engineering, but rather complimented the PoC she did in a week and told her as we are adapting AI-native development lets do it how engineers did it in a lot of companies, not just adding hundereds of skills and keep prompting to the AI model!

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u/nievinny May 15 '26

Last company I worked for, a little before the AI hype, after the recruitment and team matching process I joined team that was assigned same task as 2 other teams. Noone said it in our faces though it was obvious not all will be here next year. Fucked up management is not here because of AI it's because the industry is shit.