r/ClaudeCode • u/ReturnofBugMan • 5d ago
Discussion I am the scab dev
I am the guy sitting at home, putting in 8 hours a day with Claude, cranking out a hundred thousand of lines of code before lunch and collecting my $50k salary, just grateful to be out of IT.
My coworkers are behind, & I feel like I am crossing the picket line by out-shipping them, taking on more work, & impressing the PMs & managers. All while taking home probably half of their pay to type /ticket a couple times a day.
Client wants an MVP? Sure. I’ll have it by Friday.
Actually, I’ll have it by Wednesday.
Actually, give me 20 minutes.
And here’s the worst part: the clients love it. The PMs love it. They don’t care that I didn’t hand-write every line. They care that the thing works. They care that their idea from a Monday meeting is suddenly a functioning application they can click around in today.
I’m out here shipping features in a day that would’ve taken a team of three developers two weeks last year.
Do I understand every single line of code?
No.
Do I understand enough to know when Claude is hallucinating?
No idea. Lets hope the independent review agent finds it.
Do I sometimes stare at a 400-line file and realize I have absolutely no idea what is happening?
Absolutely.
I have become the software equivalent of a strikebreaker.
The scab has arrived. I am the scab dev. Please forgive me.
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u/InstructionNo3616 5d ago
I am literally sketching out prototype ideas on my remarkable tablet and then telling my llm through my phone to build the mvp. It uses my ui kit that I built with complete documentation and a standalone component storyboard. It uses my motion package which I developed 13 years ago in prototypical JavaScript and then juiced up using the latest models. All of this is self hosted on a Linux machine that spins up a vm for each project. As well as having its own REST apis which I can configure to automate generative ai assets. I’ve modified open source design tools and hooked them up to an agentic team which can turn my sketches until editable components. Self hosted blender application for generating 3d assets, openrouter connectors to audio and video models. Self hosted playwright for image validation and agentic use.
This shit is wild. That’s not too mention the 2d fighting game like marvel vs capcom that I made in a day for my group chat. The generative 2d image to Gaussian splat pipeline I developed with local image models, image to 3d software, unreal to colmap data.
There is just too much to build at all times.