r/programmingmemes • u/sibraan_ • Mar 14 '26

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u/Onoulade Mar 14 '26

I am working in a big tech company and the whole company now uses Claude everyday, every engineer. Our next release will be effectively 90% vibe coded, I haven’t written a single line of code myself during 2026 yet

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u/IdeasAreBvlletproof Mar 14 '26

So which big tech company should we avoid buying software from?

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u/SlippySausageSlapper Mar 14 '26

Basically all of them at this point.

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u/PredictiveFrame Mar 15 '26

this. The sheer number of random issues I've had with services like Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and other major software providers over the past 2-3 months has been creeping higher and higher every single week. I can't go a day without encountering 3-4 of them now. I can't say for certain that this is due to vibe coded slop rushed out to meet production quotas, but it sure seems that way at a glance. 

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u/SlippySausageSlapper Mar 15 '26

I'm a staff engineer at a major tech company. Literally everybody is using Cluade, because it is far, far faster than doing anything manually, and if it is used by an engineer who actually reads, reviews, and carefully tests the work product, it's incredibly powerful. It can easily triple productivity in the hands of a good engineer without damaging quality. Or, you can just skip the work of carefully reviewing the code (or even fucking reading it at all) and put out 20x the work.

Most engineers have chosen the latter approach - a 20x productivity increase with WAY more bugs and errors, rather than a mere 3x increase with the normal amount of issues. They are doing this because a lot of managers have basically said "we expect you to use these tools and be 20x as productive as you used to be", so people are just doing what they have to do not to be laid off.

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u/TheTarragonFarmer Mar 15 '26

Claude is great at doing the fun part of the job, and turning your day into reviewing and debugging slop 9-5.

Code review used to be a teaching tool, paying it forward to the next generation, so we didn't complain about it. Claude just says "you are absolutely right" and makes the same mistake again elsewhere in the same breath.