40s, master of science, sysadmin, programmer, network engineer, slight urban farmer, ex-traveler of US, settled out west. libertarian socialist. I miss Smithee!
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. 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. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
@irishnerd47 Hopefully you learned your lesson about “loving” a corporate conglomerate.
A business has one goal:
Profit
The end.
They do not think of you as a “fan” but as a “customer” who is part of a data point used to grow their brand and please share holders.
Period.
@GTAVI_Countdown Police won't come to your house if you have been robbed, if your cars stolen or even sexual assault but they'll be there if you happen to predict when a fucking game is launching!?
When your game is so important that more law enforcement is going to get used to arrest a video game leaker who name isn't known, than a island full of preds whose names are documented