Dev rants that his job is now 99% prompting Claude as AI levels the field
MoudieQaha · reddit · 2026-10-14
A Reddit developer describes how his company job has devolved into endless prompting and pressing Enter, with Claude writing 99% of the code. He worries the product could be reverse-engineered in a day, layoffs are inevitable, and AI's leveling effect has drained his sense of achievement — signing off wryly as "written by a human."
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