Quoting voxium
Simon Willison has quoted a developer using the name voxium describing conditions at a large company where, according to the account, all engineering artifacts are generated by Claude Code. The quote says this has been the case for half a month, beginning when the writer started a new role.
According to the account, specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, the resolution of those tickets, and reports are all made by Claude Code. The writer states that nobody on the team likes this and that they are being forced to ship as much as they can.
The account says the writer has heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, and management asks why the team is slow. It adds that people are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter, and that nobody is reading anything.
The writer states that everyone from an L1 to an L7 engineer is doing the same thing, and closes with the line "Talk to Claude." Willison's post carries the tags ai-misuse, llms, ai and generative-ai. No company, product, or team is named in the account, and the claims are the writer's own description of their workplace.
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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 ever