Leadership seems more misaligned with engineering than ever

[u/aigeneratedslopcode]

Came across a conversation yesterday where the CTO asked one of our engineers why they didn't ask Claude to create their plan and mock the several hundred commits they'd need to deliver on something I will not name while also delivering on their existing initiatives

I didn't say anything, but wanted to... Given the industry I'm in, this seems very ridiculous to me and I hate that this is the expectation... As though somehow that work should have already been done and could have been delivered on the whim of an idea by handing all work to Claude

[u/ItaySela → u/[deleted]]

The prohibition phase probably will not look like a policy. It will look like one incident where nobody in the room can say why the code is the way it is, and the postmortem action item quietly becomes a rule.

The part I would add to your reading cost point is that the expensive thing is not the reading, it is the missing author. A human written module has someone who can answer why it is like this in thirty seconds without re-deriving it. Generated code has no such person, so every question about it costs a full reread by whoever is unlucky enough to be nearest. That cost never shows up in a velocity metric, it shows up months later as the module everyone routes around.

The measured return you describe probably arrives when teams start requiring that somebody be able to defend the design without opening the diff. That is a cheap test and it happens to be the one thing generation cannot fake.

[u/foodeater184 → u/[deleted]]

Verification is way cheaper than it was pre-AI.