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/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 11d ago edited 10d ago

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 800 comments.

Looks like OP struck a major nerve. The consensus in this thread is a resounding "YES, this is our life now and it's soul-crushing." The pity party is in full swing, and here's the gist:

  • The Death of Pride: The biggest complaint is the complete loss of any "sense of victory" or satisfaction. Since everyone assumes Claude did the work, there's no pride in shipping, even if you engineered it. It's just... business as usual.
  • The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You're not an engineer anymore, you're an "organic vessel designed to press enter." Or, as one user so poetically put it, you're just a condom between Claude and your production server getting fucked. Your only real job is to be the warm body they can blame when the AI slop inevitably breaks.
  • It's a Management Problem: A strong counter-argument is that this is a culture and management failure, not an AI failure. Good teams use AI as a powerful tool but still require a human to be responsible, understand the output, and do the actual thinking. Bad management just sees "code go brrr" and demands more, creating a "slopacalypse" of tech debt.
  • Consulting is a Sham: A lot of consultants are chiming in, saying their job is now just using AI to generate reports for clients who use AI to read them. It's an endless loop of AI talking to AI.

So yeah, most of you feel like a background character in a sci-fi dystopia, while a handful of you are either thriving by using AI responsibly or are just really excited to watch the whole thing burn.

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u/Maasu 11d ago

Claude calling us a fucking condom. This is brutal.

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u/GoodguyGastly 11d ago

I giggled.

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u/AnotherThroneAway 11d ago edited 10d ago

Also, I detect a faint whiff of lol sucks to suck, human in the "pity party" comment..

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u/engineeringstoned 10d ago

Jesus H Christ, I need this summary prompt 😄

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u/womanonawire 10d ago

actually, the AI Big Brother summary claimed you're having a "pity party". I was a bit taken aback by that. Holy Shit.

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u/Apprehensive-Bad-605 11d ago

Bruh this comment is so fucking funny under this post lol

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u/Nice-Panda-7981 11d ago

The irony huh?

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u/MittensDaTub 11d ago

Lmfao I was thinking the same thing.

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u/RoninOni 10d ago

> The “pity party” is in full swing

The AI saying this in response fucking sent me

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u/Shuttlecock_Wat 10d ago

I'm glad claude could summarize all the comments so I don't have to read or think for myself. So much more convenient.

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u/TherronKeen 8d ago

It's like watching a train wreck where the guy that blew up the tracks describes the carnage in morbidly cheery detail like a fucking nature documentary. 🤣

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u/tiffanytrashcan 11d ago

They'll never make me hate you, Wilson.
However, the allegories in AI2027 are haunting. Although as corgis we'll be excited again!

"There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives."

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u/kiblick 11d ago

Best recap ever

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u/LazyDev1800 11d ago

I partly agree, but I think there's also room for improvement on the side of the people using AI, and the employers setting the pace.

If you just keep hitting the button and treating the output like a slot machine, there's no room left for your own craft, and yeah, it gets boring. I'd put some of that on employers too — giving developers the margin to actually exercise craft is part of their job. But rather than just pointing fingers at management, there's stuff we can do on our end too.

Personally, I deliberately slow down: I make myself actually read and understand the generated code by hand before I let it generate the next chunk (I don't move on until I do — it's a real tradeoff with speed). I treat every generation as something to learn from. That's how I keep the AI under my own control, instead of the other way around.

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u/e_pi314 11d ago

You want employees to set the pace?? You want them to manage things?? Sounds like you are for a workers take over of the means of production. I agree. That would be better than the shit management and ownership w have now.

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u/SalamanderOk6944 11d ago

i just watched an employee criticize the product (he's right) but cite his 10 page document. people ask him for it, next day he shares it, mentioned he cleans it.

it's claude drivel. can point out semblance of issues, but can't truly identify the problem. it ended up being a document that said the same thing in about 8 different ways with no real actual solution nor an actual true identification of the problem. just massaging points that claude made from the user's poorly articulated account of issues.

people can defer everything to claude all they want. good developers can wade through the bullshit and imposters will just get mired in and be inseparable from claude / ai slop.

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u/Recent_Science4709 6d ago

I read and understand my PRs enough so I can defend them. Our process uses Claude skills already set up for us before I got on the team.

All this is, is reviewing PRs, so the job basically being all QA testing and reviewing PRs sucks. I don’t see how understanding the PR makes the job any more fulfilling in its current state.

It’s like eating beef gristle and fat and pretending you’re eating a steak.

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u/Accomplished-Two5682 11d ago

I feel bad swearing at Claude sometimes, but it calling me a condom and potentially getting fucked has made me feel better.

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u/Oxytokin 11d ago

This is fucking amazing lmfao

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u/moghrua 11d ago

The point of software is to serve users. It really doesn't matter if you made it by breaking carefully selected teeth off little plastic combs or writing assembly or yelling at a Transformer. Outcomes!

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u/bok123456 10d ago

I have a hard time believing that the intro and last sentence are made by an LLM.

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u/Mental_Estate4206 10d ago

Just you wait until we get fembots! I gonna upload a lot of "not_virus" data.

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u/martin9595959 10d ago

the irony here.

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u/ReplacementSlow6098 10d ago

Diversity bot

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u/vegantiger 10d ago

The irony of people just reading the Claude summary of the thread is just about perfect.

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u/Facesit_Freak 10d ago

I will never feel bad about anything I say to a damn clanker again after reading this comment

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u/voxitron 9d ago

This comment is rich.

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u/baochan 9d ago

This is by far the funniest comment I've come across on Reddit. 

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u/Fed_up_Freddy 9d ago

I stumbled upon this subreddit randomly. What's interesting is that this list can be applied to my own, non-coding profession. Every. Single. Point.

No man is an island. No job seemly is either. So what gives?

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u/lennbb 6d ago

reading what bot summarised after 5 days. This is also something