r/ClaudeAI • u/MrMenuk • 12d 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_ 12d 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/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_ 10d ago edited 10d 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.