I am done with this shit

Posted by meander_water 1 day ago

I am done with this shit(www.reddit.com)

255 points | 200 commentspage 3

reasonableklout 1 day ago|

The original post on X/Twitter is here: https://x.com/v0xium/status/2101526107128529120

DavCreator 1 day ago||

https://xxcancel.com/v0xium/status/2101526107128529120

latexr 1 day ago||

Alternative nitter frontend: https://xcopy.uk/v0xium/status/2101526107128529120

mitxela 1 day ago||

Alternative copy/paste of the tweet/Xcretion:

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.

iamtedd 1 day ago||

You know the reddit post that is the subject of discission already did what you did, right?

mitxela 5 hours ago||

Reddit's worse than X. At least X lets you read the direct thing you linked to when logged out.

gonzalohm 1 day ago||

The other day I inherited a repo from someone that left the company. The first one to be almost fully vibe coded.

It's horrible. It's over engineered in every way. It follows a completely different pattern than the other repos. It adds 10 CLI options that don't have any use (why does Claude add --threads to everything). It's impossible to follow the flow of the code. Of course, days after I inherited it, it broke so good luck to me fixing it I guess

JohnBooty 1 day ago||

Ironically, my first thought was how quickly this might be able to be re-written, in a sane way, …with the help of an LLM.

I find that if you pay a lot of human-in-the-loop attention to the design phase, LLMs can produce perfectly decent stuff.

They’re also good at writing tests. Lock in the (non-broken) behavior of the old app with tests. Then use those tests to re-create the app, except with a talented engineer (you) guiding the design this time.

vehemenz 1 day ago|||

What's to stop you from rebuilding it yourself to improve the structure? Why couldn't you vibe code it better?

gonzalohm 1 day ago||

I mean, I'm going to rebuild it. But with just a light AI usage. The point I'm trying to make is that. Ok, AI may have saved time coding it the first time. But building an unmaintainable codebase is going to make you pay that time back with interests

AndrewThrowaway 1 day ago||

It is like inheriting Assembly codebase written by a compiler.

You will not edit Assembly in this.

Claude will have to edit it and Claude will not whine.

gonzalohm 1 day ago||

That's not true at all. One thing is not understanding the language in which it was written and a completely different one is that even though it was coded in a language that I have proficiency in, the code doesn't make sense. It's just poorly engineered

I refuse to keep adding shit to the pile

setheron 1 day ago||

We can work on harder problems at the frontier of the models knowledge. I'm working on one such domain, and I find AI use helpful, but I still need to be incredibly astute.

yurish 1 day ago|

What domain is it may I ask you?

codingdave 1 day ago||

That is an impressive level of tone-deafness to see an automatic AI-generated summary of comments as the top comment on the thread.

azeirah 1 day ago||

That's a default bot in that subreddit, it's there for all posts. I get your criticism but I don't think this was done deliberately.

codingdave 1 day ago||

Agreed, but that is exactly the point. The mods believe that AI slop is the desired top content in their sub. It exemplifies what is wrong with AI-generated content, as it places people's comments secondary to the AI's summary.

220hertz 1 day ago||

Not going to lie, I thought that was the point.

maurelius2 1 day ago||

The irony of having the comment section summarized by Claude is not lost on anyone.

hknceykbx 1 day ago||

Assume you have control over things. How do you make it not soul crushing? Even if you don’t have an incentive to produce as fast as you can, it’s still kinda sucks. Even if you take the time to carefully review the code produced etc.

FrustratedMonky 1 day ago||

In the post, he had only been at the company for 2 weeks. Maybe they have a really bad on-boarding process and he just wasn't seeing the process clearly.

Surely it cant' be this bad, or a company would collapse?

72deluxe 1 day ago||

I think we'd all be surprised how bad most software is within businesses, and they somehow still run.

skydhash 1 day ago||

If it’s B2B, the finance side (seller/customer) of the relationship can be totally different from the product side (developer/user). Evolution of the contract is often measured in quarters.

sylware 1 day ago||

Any reddit noscript/basic HTML frontend alternative?

bergheim 1 day ago|

I was taken immediately here https://safereddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done...

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

sylware 20 hours ago||

Nope, I am blocked by anubis: javascript of recent whatwg cartel web engines (the worst of the worst).

I am looking for a noscript/basic HTML alternative front.

echelon_musk 1 day ago|

Nice. A Claude bot summarises the comments of people complaining about Claude so you don't have to read them!

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