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Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter
Submitted 1 week ago by Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.techspot.com/news/113937-engineer-claude-code-has-made-job-soul-sucking.html
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gyrfalcon@beehaw.org 6 days ago
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
He could have configured it to auto approve.
dragnucs@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
In the enterprise you could link jira tickets to github copilite on the cloud and it makes and merges and deploys PRs for you.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 days ago
It was good enough for George Jetson, it is good enough for them.
luciole@beehaw.org 1 week ago
It’s hard to describe how soul-sucking the process of handing over development to an LLM is, at least for some of us. Even if I have the luxury of reading the slop and wrestling with it, there’s something mind crushing in the process. I don’t understand exactly myself why I hate it so damn much. There’s something psychological going on. I’ve worked with no purpose before, coding stuff because management says so even if I knew it was going to tank hard or it was clearly wrong. This hits different. It’s worst than boring. It’s worst than loss of purpose.
bigoofn@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
There are 2 major types of devs in terms of their motivations:
The former are the people who report this feeling. The latter are the people perpetuating the grift & doing mental gymnastics to calm the cognitive dissonance that what they’re churning out isn’t ultimately slop.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 6 days ago
There’s another type, which is like me, who develop as a means to have a tool I need.
I wanted a better way to manage my cross-device libraries (desktop, laptop, NAS), and the multi-pane file managers like didn’t work great for me, so instead I used Claude to build one that has native per-pane ssh support, streamed video and music preview clips, etc etc.
Capitalism is always gonna Capitalism, doesn’t matter what type of tools are at play.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
For me it’s the constant pressure to deliver more and with shorter deadlines while still being held accountable when things inevitably go wrong.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 6 days ago
It removes any creativity I have in the process. Complex decision making is no longer mine, the only say I have is Accept or Reject (and Roll Again). It's soul crushing because entire process now has no soul.
And my coworkers who have bought in completely are now so lazy they don't even call in to meetings anymore, they don't answer questions, they let AI run the entire SDLC. When they get replaced by some MBA who knows how to hit the same buttons, they will be completely blindsided. And they will have nobody to blame but themselves.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
They made us use ansible at work. Then they made us use an LLM .
Onencanceks out the other, IMHO. None of the things I wanted to do are represented here, forced to slop some yaml together instead of building and maintaining actual software. Ai use kills any recall, expertise, or enjoyment.
But here’s the thing. I never want to think about how to affect a change via a bad listing grammar. I never want to recall the decisions I made while doing so. I never want to learn how to make better ansible. I never want to show my friends that code either.
I’m absolutely tickled to give it to the slop machine and let it accomplish the goals with very little investment from me. Fuck Ai, but also fuck ansible.