15-year engineer says Claude now writes the code, opens the PR, and does the review — 'I feel obsolete'
alejomos · reddit · 2026-10-19
A software engineer with 15 years of experience posted on Reddit about growing anxiety over being sidelined by AI coding tools. He describes Claude connecting to Jira, reading tickets, drafting usually accurate plans, writing code, opening PRs, and even reviewing them — sometimes with more context than he has, catching issues he'd miss within a single PR.
Though still employed, he says the sheer volume of AI-generated changes erodes his own judgment, and watching layoffs mount on LinkedIn he wonders how long the job will last. He asks the community how others are coping.
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