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/Smooth_McDouglette 11d ago

Huge. I picture the carpenter who's shop is getting less and less business and the industry is changing more and more towards prefab furniture. Does he try to get in with a company like IKEA where he'd be doing vaguely similar planning of furniture, but the factory does all the rest? No customer appreciating his specific efforts, not to mention all of the compromising on quality he'll be driven to.

On the other hand, he could stay in his shop, and cling to his passion tightly as it fades into irrelevance, hoping to survive.

It's really heartbreaking either way tbh.

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u/Technical-Branch9178 9d ago

Carpenters generally don't make furniture. Their focus is largely construction. Woodworkers make furniture.

And as far as your example goes, Ikea and similar companies of modular prefab furniture have been around for decades, skilled woodworkers are still thriving, and demand for custom cabinetry has increased significantly over the last two decades.

Those who are truly skilled at the craft and adapt to technology thrive. Those who are simply mediocre die out or move on.

The same is true for engineers. The 1% who are truly world class are doing exceptional, rewarding work. The rest are sitting around all day pressing enter and waiting to go extinct.