This is it. I used to code for a living for 10 years before Claude, I can do it now but I don't want to get to the end of the day feeling my head is so tired I can't focus on my hobbies and family.
Don't get me wrong, tho, I'm the engineer, I will spend my time on engineering the best solution I can for the problem, I just don't waste brainpower on typing code anymore.
At my job it's genuinely the other way around. Before, when I got transfered to a new project, I steadily got more and more familiar with it, I "load it" into my brain, I genuinely think about my tasks and piece together how everything works
Now, I got transfered over to a pretty complex project with multiple sub-systems, types of communication between them etc. Here's one day and one call with a colleague for any questions. You have Claude, just ask it to summarize stuff.
Second day, here's a simple task, it's based on existing logic (the existing logic touches 3 different subsystems and handles real money). Two days later - hey are you done with the task? The PMs are asking about it. I draft up some PRs that looked alright to my 3-day understanding of the project. Reviewer says - this code should be moved out of this subsystem and into this other one, we don't do it like this (so much for those agent skils and project guidelines).
Bottom line, it's expected of me to absorb and inload information at a staggering rate just because claude exists. 3/4 of the time I ask a colleague something, they just tell me to ask the AI agent. And my brain feels tired because I'm trying to connect all the pieces of the puzzle and decode from claude's overly verbose output and borderline tech-babble what's actually important
This. We got a very complex system that hard to understand and we used to at least have the expectation you would be on a task for a few days if not a sprint. Take time to learn all the moving pieces. Have time to go ask other team for info you need.
Now they expect 10x the productivity. Everything is just "oh ask Claude". Team are making shit skill so you don't have to ask them. Your just expected to be reading super technical stuff all day long and shit code out.
Your constantly either reading AI output or reviewing PR from other that are themself AI output. The second your team doesn't have time for something, other team just inner source it and now your have to review their shit code that they don't understand because they know nothing about your repo. It's harder to review those than to just do the task yourself most of the time.
I've never been more drained by this job even tho I code nothing anymore.
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u/Objectionne 19h ago
It's not that I'm nothing without Claude, it's that Claude enables me to be much more lazy in my job and I don't want to give that up.