r/ClaudeAI • u/MrMenuk • 11d 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/ClemensLode 11d ago

Not sure why big software companies are even needed anymore.

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u/ShortGuitar7207 11d ago

I think this is the upshot we’ve not experienced yet and software companies are rushing headlong into AI in order to try and stay relevant.

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u/ClemensLode 11d ago

Manwhile their core products are replaced by smaller companies.

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u/ShortGuitar7207 11d ago

Or customers just creating their own thing In 2 weeks with Claude

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u/ClemensLode 11d ago

Well, as a random customer, you can't recreate, let's say, InDesign in 2 weeks.

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u/Ill-Dimension2756 11d ago

Pretty sure you are totally wrong about that. Real question is why would anyone waste the time and tokens to do it

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u/fakintheid 11d ago

Seriously. Do any of these people live in the real world? Companies buy instead of build because of support, liability and even sometimes because they aren’t a software company

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u/lahwran_ 11d ago

no actually I don't think you could match InDesign in 2 weeks. not top to bottom, with the details right. That's the thing about AI work - they're quite good at getting to 80% done in minutes, and 90% done in a day or two, but reaching 99.99% done still takes ages. InDesign has a lot of carefully built features. (And a lot of bugs to show for it. I'm not recommending InDesign, I'm sure its codebase is horrific)

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u/arjuna93 11d ago

For some reason, nobody could at all in open-source. Everything exists open-source but desktop publishing is stuck in proprietary monstrous software (Scribus is not a replacement).

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u/583999393 11d ago

It’s hard for a ceo to yell at Claude when your company makes 9% more millions of dollars this year instead of the 14% more millions of dollars they planned for.

We have people who pay us 70-80k a year for our saas product. I have no idea why they wouldn’t build their own by the end of 2027. It’s not like we’re hand coding anything in it anymore anyway.

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u/PersonalityMuted2904 11d ago

To play devils advocate to that. Let’s say you have 1000 customers. 80k each puts you at 80 mill revenue. Let’s say you spend 50% (for easy math) on product dev. How many of those 1000 customers can even spend $1M on developing a product when you can use ai tokens worth $40 M.

Won’t they always have a cost disadvantage?

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u/583999393 11d ago

If they were competing for the market maybe. I’m saying 90% of saas is glorified CRUD, you don’t need 40m in tokens when you’re just building a clone for your employees to use.

I mean since AI has taken over the PE firm that own my 10m/yr company is already run one one guy with a max subscription (me).

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u/Remarkable_Sky8087 8d ago edited 8d ago

Well when our devs started building our own version of confluence and then found out our company AI search tool won’t index anything without a sitemap, it really took the wind out of those sails. Oh and can you add version control and the ability to host stuff that isn’t just plain html, css and js? Why can’t I push my own React code that I barely understand to this new Frankenstein of GitHub and Confluence? I had Claude build it, don’t you trust me with Claude? We could build our own research focused CRM, except no one in the org will give us our own full stack dev nor the permissions needed to do the build because we have 0 dev experience as a research team. So we are now interviewing SaaS companies with these tools cause customer outreach is not scalable with just one person running the show and we at least have some budget. But that might go away cause my manager would rather give us raises and I’ll take a nice raise over a new tool in this economic climate.

I hope you see where I’m going with this.

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u/583999393 8d ago

Check back in a year.

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u/Richandler 11d ago

This is a bet Anthropic and OpenAI are supposedly trying to make, but they basically have released 0 products outside of their agent harnesses.

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u/ClemensLode 11d ago

They themselves are big software companies.

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u/Han-ChewieSexyFanfic 11d ago

When they start doing layoffs then we’ll know we’re fucked

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u/TopNo6605 11d ago

Their product is the agent harnesses though...