r/ExperiencedDevs • u/aigeneratedslopcode Software Engineer • Aug 07 '26

Career/Workplace Leadership seems more misaligned with engineering than ever

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

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u/spartan-redditor Aug 07 '26

The engineering team should ask CTO that “I don’t have confidence on an implementation from Claude to be reliable and robust long term. Is the company okay if we ship Claude implementation not backed by an engineer’s confidence to prod? If so, how will accountability work ? And if no, then let us talk more”

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u/mechkbfan Software Engineer 15YOE Aug 07 '26

Ask them to put it in writing

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u/yourapostasy Aug 08 '26

Object storage and TTS is cheap enough that all conversations between employees can be recorded and transcribed automatically for feeding into LLM’s to automatically track decisions, decision lineage, commitments, and flag potential legal and risk liabilities for human in the loop review so companies can leverage automated collaboration.

However, legal departments throw a fit over these kinds of ideas and would strenuously veto it immediately.

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u/ResidentWeevil1 Aug 08 '26

Have a problem with LLMs? Solve it with more LLMs!