Software Engineer Shares Frustration Over Corporate AI-Driven Development
A viral post from a software engineer highlights growing concerns regarding the reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs) like Claude in corporate environments. The author describes a workplace culture where employees are pressured to prioritize rapid code deployment over quality, understanding, or human oversight. According to the post, engineers are spending long hours managing AI-generated outputs rather than performing traditional development tasks, leading to a perceived loss of technical agency and critical thinking. This reflection touches on the broader debate regarding the industrialization of intellectual labor and the potential risks of shipping automated code without thorough human review.
I have vague requirements which many times I could not understand, so I give it to claude and it does some analysis and then, I will figure out what I am doing, then I decide what to do, and push the claude to do what I want and check every line of code and ask it why it is doing
I don’t know what most of that shit is, but it seems as if they’re coding totally by AI and no one knows what the fucking programs are going to do and no one is checking shit.
It's only this overwhelming in the software industry. Actual manufacturing and heavy industries - where shit has to work or a billion dollar oil rig blows up - are not sucking up to mindless AI worship. Source: working in oil machinery industry. Not a single engineer here is usin
Programmers are not engineers.
This is the next logical step: industrialisation of intellectual jobs. An engineer will do 10 times more projects and a lawyer 10 times more cases. This tweet expresses the same frustration manual labor felt during the industrial revolution.
Industrialization and commodification of labour has reached white collar jobs. This is the most late-capitalism shit we have ever seen. Yet.
After decades of "just learn to code, bro" gloating from software developers who made fun of people being afraid of being made redundant in other industries by software, my sympathy isn't exactly overflowing.
You are lucky because you know how to do these jobs without using Clod; in just a few short years there will only be a handful of Brahmin.
There are a couple of problems with AI first and major one is that no one learns from it. Yesterday I didnt know how to do a gigantic condition in excel checking dates, calculating age and a bunch of other things returning a new date depending on the age. Did I learn how to do it
My LLM tells me this isn't happening. Sorry.