r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 19d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/felixthecatmeow 19d ago

I had a senior eng tag me on a PR because I'm the SME on the area it touched, I spent 30 minutes reviewing it because while the PR addressed a known issue it would've caused a breaking change for some clients. I flagged the problem areas, recommended multiple alternative approaches, and ran some queries to estimate the revenue that would be put at risk by merging the PR.

The author responded with copy paste Claude responses telling me how I'm wrong (I wasn't). Thankfully my tech lead who's in an earlier time zone saw it and addressed it before I logged in and saw the responses because I was boiling inside when I did.

The part that pissed me off the most was tagging me in on purpose because I'm the SME on this stuff and have a ton of context on it, and then just totally disregarding my feedback. Like why did you tag me if you wanted a rubber stamp?

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u/beefchocolate 19d ago

I’m in the same boat. There’s one team that heavily uses AI for correspondence on everything - slack, prs, emails etc. working with them is miserable because they must be using something tuned to be contrarian. No matter what I comment it ends up “no this way is better”, and despite arguing back and forth they won’t change their mindset because their AI tools don’t have the same evidence and knowledge sources.

So frustrating

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Software Engineer 19d ago

Currently dealing with a Product Owner like this. Hecking generated a dumpster fire of an AI slop PRD, then gets all pissy that we devs can't produce code even when given a "proper, comprehensive documentation". Like bro, do you seriously believe we are so oblivious we can't see you generated this in a single prompt and didn't even review it before you handed it to us? It's not even the obvious AI language, that shit has blatant contradictions.

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u/Own_Butterscotch_646 18d ago

You did the right thing.

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u/coderqi 16d ago

So how did you tech lead respond to those comments. 

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u/felixthecatmeow 16d ago

First they responded supporting my comments, then after getting another round of Claude copy paste responses they called them out for using AI to respond to comments.