Engineer describes company where all work is generated by Claude Code and unread
An anonymous engineer, quoted by Simon Willison, describes a large company where all work products—specs, code, tests, tickets, reports—are generated by Claude Code and nobody reads them. Employees from L1 to L7 work 12-13 hours daily just to submit AI output, while management wonders why progress is slow despite code not being a bottleneck.
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Simon Willison
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. — voxium Tags: ai-misuse , llms , ai , generative-ai
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