Engineer: Big Company Ships Everything Via Claude Code, Nobody Reads It Anymore
Simon Willison · rss · 2026-09-21
Simon Willison quotes voxium's account of joining a large company where, within two weeks, every artifact — specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, reports — is produced by Claude Code, and nobody actually understands the system.
- The team dislikes it but is pressured to ship as much as possible; management keeps asking why they're slow since "pushing code is not a bottleneck."
- Engineers work 12-13 hour days largely just pressing enter, and everyone from L1 to L7 does the same thing: talk to Claude.
- Willison tags it ai-misuse — a cautionary case of organizational risk from blindly forcing AI coding: unread codebases, eroding knowledge transfer, and burned-out engineers.
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