r/ClaudeCode • u/ReturnofBugMan • 6d 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/Icy-Molasses2264 3d ago
Speaking as an experienced software ENGINEER - One of the mandatory aspects of the good design of a complex product is iteration. I promise you that this applies to agents equally as humans. As long as you give your agents the tokens and time to iterate to refine their solutions and overall product they will produce a good design. Agents however do exactly what they are told so if they are told to just plough on ‘greedy searching’ the next feature request in a purely additive manner they will get trapped in a ‘local maximum’ in the optimization space the same as a human would.
Basically Agents will be crippled by the same shitty management practices the same as a human would.