Comment by throwatdem12311

You’re right. As the only staff engineer at my company every time I see yet another slop PR from an offshore developer that is just a “one shot” from Claude I just want to end it all.

I’m one engineer that needs to maintain a half a million line codebase (and growing!) and review all of these PRs that are generated at the speed of slop by people in another country that do not give a single f*ck. There’s one of me and 3 of them. Before AI this was manageable. After Claude Code was given to these guys to go hog wild it’s just become completely impossible to keep up. The irony is that we’re delivering slower because the projects are way bigger, complexity has exploded and keeps getting worse, and it takes way longer to review anything because the code that is generated is just mountains of slop. But the CEO can sell us as an “AI native” company it’s a total joke.

I’m currently looking at a list of 10 PRs by a single offshore dev with an average of 50 files changed in each. Al of which cross cutting with eachother and I just can’t shake the feeling I’d rather drive a garbage truck for a living - or drive my own car off a cliff instead.

Every time I see some prompt start with something like

“You are an expert software engineer…”

Or anything in that vein I just can’t help but shake the feeling that we’ve abandoned decades of software engineering best practices in favour of what is essentially reading tea leaves.