Engineer: my whole team is forced to ship Claude Code output nobody reads
wfithian · x · 2026-09-22
An anonymous engineer says that two weeks into a big-company role, everything—specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, reports—is generated by Claude Code, and nobody on the team likes it. Management insists shipping code isn't the bottleneck while engineers work 12-13 hour days 'just pressing enter,' with no one actually reading anything.
Quoting the post, zetalyrae argues AI is an 'anti-intellectual technology': first software, now math, and eventually all intellectual activity and discourse will be abolished. The thread has struck a chord as a first-hand account of runaway AI-assisted engineering culture.
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