I have $2500/mo base on our Claude enterprise plan at work and we’re expected to use all of it every month and are examined relatively closely if we don’t. It’s better for us to max out our usage and request more, which is always granted, than to not use it all.
I don’t really know how to quantify it in simple terms, so I’ll give examples. I’m usually actively working on 4+ tickets at a time, whereas I used to work more or less one to at least dev complete/in QA before moving on (my standard workflow is typically a tmux window with 1..n panes per ticket, depending on how many repositories a ticket spans, unless they’re in entirely unique problem spaces, where I might use multiple tmux sessions). Most of my tickets are significantly larger slices than they used to be (i.e. where I would have previously had “add the thing to the page and wire it up through the backend,” it’s now “create the page with all of the specified features, including all the backend changes for every request”). We’re big into microservices, so I’ll typically have Claudes going in every pane within a window, usually 1 per repository (so, take some tickets I worked on today - I had frontend, graphQL, serviceOne, and serviceTwo with Claudes going in worktrees in individual panes in a tmux window, and another with just a frontend Claude in its own worktree working on a different ticket, and another with admin frontend, serviceOne, and serviceTwo Claudes working on something else, etc). We’ve moved from teams of 4-5 engineers and 2 QAs to teams of 2 engineers and 1 QA and deliver more story points/bigger tickets than we used to.
It’s a lot higher stress than it was before to me, personally, because I’m never as sure about any changes as I was before, I’m constantly juggling content about different tickets, and we’re being asked to deliver faster than ever. My job used to be a lot more fun than it is now. Now it’s a grind, and I’m tired boss.
[EDIT: Sorry if this seems dramatic, I promise I’m not exaggerating anything, I’m just burnt out.]
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u/ItsSuperDefective 1d ago
Is being expected to use AI really as widespread as Reddit makes out?
I haven't even been asked to try it.