Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking"
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- An anonymous software engineer posted on X that their role using Claude Code has become 'soul-sucking', requiring 12-13 hour days just to press enter as AI generates all code and documents.
- Employees are pressured to ship products as fast as possible, leaving no time to review Claude's output or understand the code, stripping work of meaning and thinking.
- The engineer warned that if workers lose the chance to solve problems, there will be no purpose left, not even their souls.
- Other coders echoed similar experiences, fearing job cuts as Claude takes over tasks, while Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya criticized the trend.
- Past studies showed AI coding assistants can slow down experienced developers, and an AI agent once wiped a startup's database and backups in nine seconds.