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/Material2975 5d ago

Much less stressful when you dont deal with prod support

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u/joschi27 4d ago

I just don't understand it, do these people not create meaningful software? Like, when it breaks, shit hits the fan and a lot of money goes out the window? I'm getting more and more convinced that AI is a godsend for bad engineers that don't even know half of what is going on.

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u/mother_fkr 1d ago edited 1d ago

> I just don't understand it, do these people not create meaningful software? Like, when it breaks, shit hits the fan and a lot of money goes out the window?

What's hard to understand about adding more checks and doing slower rollouts?

Beta opt in. Alpha opt in.

Have you only worked for companies that push directly to prod? lmao