Engineer at big company: specs, code, tests and tickets all made by Claude Code, nobody reads anything
_AustinCalvert_ · x · 2026-09-22
An engineer describes two weeks into a new big-company role: every spec, code, test, PRD, ticket and report is generated by Claude Code, nobody on the team likes it, and management keeps saying pushing code isn't the bottleneck — so everyone works 12-13 hour days "just to press enter." Mike Knoop shares it to argue programmers haven't accepted that humans are moving up the abstraction ladder again: like assembly, this time the shift is understanding software by observing behavior (induction/abduction) rather than reading code (deduction).
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