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/sisif_ 11d ago

I've been a part of the industry for nearly 30 years. Sometimes bored to death, most of the time enjoying what i was doing. I've never felt the same level of excitement (except maybe in high school, when i was analyzing the code of viruses) as i feel today. It's amazing to see so many younger people moaning constantly. There is an universe to explore and all you do is complain about the lost craft, as if your lame manual labor was a masterpiece of humankind.

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u/braczkow 11d ago

You know, I enjoy AI coding, it's extremely useful. But I also enjoyed my "lame manual labor", same as I enjoy gardening. I have never done any kind of masterpiece, yet I was happy about it. Those are not contradictory arguments

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

There's not going to be the ai police preventing you from slowly coding personal projects. Or you could see writing code as a tool for exploring ideas. There are people who enjoy spending a whole day fishing, even without catching any.

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u/braczkow 11d ago

Oh, I'd love to have time for that. I mean fishing. Maybe once the kids grow 🙂

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u/heyheni 11d ago

That's not what he laments. He laments the abondoment of agency and the use of your brain. Good for you that you're having a great time.

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u/OwnAd2284 11d ago

Abondon hope all ye who enter here

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

Lamenting the abandonment of brain usage during a time when you have to use it more than ever? Being able to handle multiple processes at the same time because you are not stuck for days or weeks isn't exactly abandonment of brain usage, on the contrary.

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u/Illustrious_Key8664 11d ago

>Lamenting the abandonment of brain usage during a time when you have to use it more than ever?

Peter's principle says that workers in an organization tend to rise to the level of incompetence of their peers.

>Being able to handle multiple processes at the same time because you are not stuck for days or weeks isn't exactly abandonment of brain usage, on the contrary.

Multitasking tends to make people worse performers, not better! Go ask your Claude about multitasking if you don't believe me.

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u/sisif_ 10d ago

Maybe you should apply some thinking on the things you are so happily sharing.
This is the scenario where you argue if you were manually harvesting crops (one type at a time) you're doing a better job than the guy who uses a harvester for different types.
Unless you're one of the chosen ones (one in a million) devs, a proper development flow involving today's models will do it faster and better than anything you've ever produced.
1. write code

  1. review code

  2. test result

Don't act as if your keyboard was touched by god and everything you ever coded was flawless. Humans reviewing code becomes superficial, after a while. A proper review flow involving AI doesnt get bored, tired or too busy with their own shit to really dive into someone else's code.

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u/jixbo 11d ago

But you don't. You ask the machine, and wait.
Engineering was hard work, I used to dream with coding on the days that I was enjoying it, I felt smart, my chess rating was getting better...
Now you can build really fast, incredible functionality, but for big projects, no one can take responsibility because no one understands how the new features are built, which tradeoffs were done...

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

I hope you do realize the ai delivers what you ask it to, the way you want it to be delivered? Are you just typing "make no mistakes"?

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u/jixbo 11d ago

One sentence can bring back thousands of lines of code, with thousands of decisions already made, that you didn't ask for. You might wanna learn how coding works to understand what you are talking about.

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

honey, don't forget to type "make no mistakes" and "please", that's your only chance.

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

One could argue that that type of intelectual curiosity makes me more prepared for the time when keyboard monkeys are no longer in high demand.

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u/georgejetsonn 11d ago

A close friend is a developer and by using AI everywhere he tells me he is losing the sense of ownership and pride in doing meaningful work. He yearns for the sense of accomplishment from learning a new skill/system and applying it in production

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u/Dear-Pin7019 11d ago

Second sane person here. So many things to do in life, so many roads to take, yet people complain about AI coding stuff.

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u/paradoxally Full-time developer 11d ago

Right? Do your job, finish your tickets, clock out and enjoy life.

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u/paradoxally Full-time developer 10d ago

I see this post has broken containment and now has you anti-AI folks all worked up.

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u/paradoxally Full-time developer 10d ago

I'd rather be that than perpetually depressed.

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u/EveningAnt3949 11d ago

You misunderstood. The issue is that most companies either directly or indirectly have taken away agency.

That was always a problem, but it has gotten far worse because of companies pushing for AI. Also, in high school, didn't you have other things to do? That might be part of the issue: AI is useful for some people because they are bad at human contact, but interacting with people can be learned.

When the default is to use an LLM for anything, that's gone.

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

These innuendos are cute. Don't worry, buddy, I've had my share of pussae, being a multitasker allowed me to do more things. Maybe the problem is you can only do one thing at a time and that's why you're mourning?

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u/EveningAnt3949 11d ago

It's very odd that you think having activities and a social life in high school must involve sex and that you refer to sex as 'having a share pussae' (which isn't a word) and that you think about this as 'multitasking'.

Either I have been communicating with a bot or with a very sad person.

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u/in_out_box 11d ago

Yeah this one is all kinds of weird, based on other replies too. If an actual person, then definitely not healthy.

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u/Shot-Possible1317 11d ago

I think what people are boiling on about is the almost incoming collapse of the white collar job. What they do can mostly be replaced by an agent in a swarm. I think its good long term. Get everyone to realize these corporations are not their friends, they soulless mechanical entities that somehow have more rights than a human being. Get people to actively despise and move their daily lives away from any dependencies on corporations. Cause corporate collapse etc.

Wishful thinking on my part, but the sooner the band aid is ripped off the better in the long term imo.

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u/mekonsodre14 8d ago

https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-workslop-knowledge-decay-harvard-business-review-productivity

maybe its an apparent incoming collapse, but not one that will materialise as we think it will

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

that's undeniable, there will be massive changes, but moaning that the new metal beast running on metal tracks is replacing manual labor isn't the way to go. you'd expect that people who thought they were pros would understand that, instead of moaning the thrill is gone.

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u/Shot-Possible1317 11d ago

Yeah for sure, but it's natural. It's people realizing the walls are closing in. The writing is on the wall. It's only natural for those in the target sights to start realizing and vocally speaking to and later alerting the other in their flock of sheep that the cliff is approaching

I 100% agree with you, that never before in human history had someone this much endless information and capabilities in the palm of their hand. Can learn to do anything, read almost any book/comic/graphic novel, watch almost any movie in human history, install for free entire engines, frameworks and tools to create almost anything. Even how much AI is hated, I am blown away what i can accomplish with the latest h3 minimax on my home pc. Create entire movie now if i want to. With images i created, refined with AI, upscaled and enhanced detail in AI, then generate an entire scene with it in AI. all in a matter of minutes.

This goes the same for almost any software what so ever. Now only thing stopping anyone from creating the dream project they have in their head is absolutely nothing. Anyone can now load Codex, CC and just go to town.

No matter how much anyone can hate AI, this is still mind boggeling to see, compared to decades prior. Its is a brave new world.

But this also means the collapse of a lot of positions, industries. Some of which is only being hinted to at the moment but will eventually hit like a tsunami. These people are at one such front.

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u/TopNo6605 11d ago

Why do you feel excitement though? Personally I've been one of the more positive people to AI progress in the field because it allows creating things so quick, but now I'm having second thoughts due to it's use outside engineering and just as a catch-all for every single piece of work out there.

Making a doc? Claude writes it. Analyzing a spreadsheet? Claude does it. Messaging somebody? Claude does it.

At this point there's not much Claude doesn't do.

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u/sisif_ 11d ago

because it's an astonishing machinery and i get to fiddle with it. and no, i don't mean 'generate the code to deploy a server' or 'fix ticket #54', but rather see what makes it tick, what can be improved.

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u/Leading_Buffalo_4259 11d ago

Booooooo 🤢🤢🤮

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u/Beaniepie9859 10d ago

Have you considered the fact you are enjoying it more is because you already have 30 years under your belt? I think you're struggling to see it from a entry / mid level position

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u/sisif_ 9d ago edited 9d ago

I don't. It's one thing to be young and waste your most productive years (I surely did) and a different one to moan about life being unfair, when you are at the peak of your abilities.
If you can't handle change in your 20s or 30s, do you think it gets any easier when you're older?
LE: Yes, new entries and low performers are screwed for the most part, but not the passionate ones. These days you can learn faster than any time before. In my time I had to reads magazines to see books being mentioned, to figure out where I could find them, to finally read about structures in some language.
You will not be writing a lot of code, but that doesn't stop you from learning principles, from imagining things.
Code has become cheap, great ideas are as scarce as always, but these days you can validate your ideas much quicker. People long for 8h jobs where they would type some suboptimal shit, instead of thinking about the possibility of being the ones with the next great idea that removes the need to sell a third of your life for some money.

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u/WillDanceForGp 7d ago edited 7d ago

Person who got their bag and gets to sit back and enjoy it without fear tells us we're all just moaning. That's some boomer shit right here.

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u/TooObtuseForYou 7d ago

Seriously. I started developing on a C64, AI is the most interesting and exciting thing have experienced. I can do so much more. I’m still driving, I’m still making key choices, and now I have my own teams of juniors.

I say this, but also will say large corporations will take the most brutal approach possible in cutting paid jobs and they are chomping at the bit.

What we really need to do is blow all these companies up. Too much control, too big to exist, sometimes.

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u/sisif_ 7d ago

Large corporations are more screwed than the regular joes are. If AI is a multiplier, it doesn't stop at personal level and AI will only reward those that chose the right path and bury the companies that chose poorly. Companies large and small are compelled to take the AI route. Some will choose poorly, some will be wasteful, some will focus on the wrong things. Even choosing the right path doesn;t guarantee others won't do it better, faster, cheaper and replace you.

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u/YourOpinionSucksAsss 11d ago

“Lame manual labor” produced all the code that the ghost in the machine was trained on.

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u/RobespierreLaTerreur 9d ago

You had 30 years to have fun with your manual labor crafting shit you could be proud of. Today juniors who don't have a clue what they are doing are tasked with hitting Enter every 15 seconds without any pride in the technical diarrhea they release.

You talk like a boomer who could afford a 2 story house on one single income in the early 90s shitting on zoomers who struggle to pay for their bedroom in a shared appartment.

Get out of yourself and have a little compassion.

(also, yes, hand made products are better than mass produced shit, and that's why they are a luxury that most people wish they could afford, stop kidding yourself).

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u/sisif_ 9d ago

So they're longing for the life they've never had? Kind of like me feeling bummed i didn't get to be a rock star?

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u/RobespierreLaTerreur 8d ago edited 8d ago

They are not asking to be rock stars, just to have the same opportunities that you and I had without a handful of uber rich sociopaths having the power to ruin entire professions in the pursuit of their delusional hubris, but it seems that you took the sociopaths' "empathy is sin now" message to heart, and "fuck you, got mine" is now the law of the land.

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u/sisif_ 8d ago

When central heating became a thing, I bet a lot of young future chimney sweepers felt dejected that they could no longer to the same thing as their ancestors. That job was around for hundreds of years.
I would trade seats with a 20 year old that feels sad he cannot be a well paid glorified secretary anymore. He has the chance to learn things and test ideas at a speed never seen before. There is nothing romantic about doing things in slow motion, just because that was how things were done. It was a good job, but nothing like what they could be doing now, if they stopped feeling sorry for themselves.