Devs haven't coded in a year, ship 2x story points with Claude, and panic anyway
BuddhistMonkey1 · reddit · 2026-10-13
A developer posts that he hasn't coded in a year: 30 minutes of prompting Claude and reviewing its code plus meetings, then off to personal projects. He ships 2x the story points of peers and his manager thinks he's a 10x engineer — yet he's spiraling: 'AI keeps getting better, what was all that sacrifice for?' He debates retraining as a plumber or electrician and asks how much time devs have left. The thread is a raw sample of AI replacement anxiety colliding with a productivity illusion.
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