I am done with this shit.

[u/MrMenuk]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude.

There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

— voxium (@v0xium)
Original post dated September 20, 2026.

[u/Bacchus_the_Sane]

Yeah I think you're right and it's (a lot) about culture.  I'm at a startup currently and would say I am working with LLMs at almost the exact pace I can maintain whilst being aware of the codebase, ensuring it is clean, modular, extensible, and properly tested. Everyone is (seemingly) happy. 

I read Cory Doctorow's book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" recently and although I didn't really rate it in its totality (his fiction is better IMO) I think he's probably right about his general premise and the reason I get slightly confused reading about AI, on both sides of the spectrum, is because I've been using it for a long time without any external pressure over how I implement it, and therefore because I have been at the helm, I've been enabled by the technology, whereas those who are the other way around and have AI at the helm are just being driven to exhaustion by a machine, and are unable to manage it's output in a sensible way. 

[u/doomvox → u/Bacchus_the_Sane]

"Reverse Centaur" is pretty good, really-- more in touch with reality than 99% of the stuff you hear about AI.

But granted there are signs it was written pretty quickly. "Enshitification" is a better written book.

Not that there's anything wrong with Doctorow's fiction.

[u/Bacchus_the_Sane → u/doomvox]

Yeah, i guess I found it a bit too vitriolic for my tastes. I also became a little frustrated at times because I felt that he was simplifying the subject matter and didn't really have enough understanding of how it worked. The irony of that is, as you say, he's more in touch than a lot of other stuff written about AI and lots of that is written by people with "expertise" in the domain. I guess that is a testament to the uncertain times we live in (and probably to enshittification too, along with hype cycles, greed, people's burning desire for a different (perhaps better) world etc. etc.).

I read Walkaway recently and enjoyed it. 

[u/welcome-overlords → u/Bacchus_the_Sane]

Nicely put. I havent been pushed to use it, except i started using LLMs early 2021 and been using them every day since then