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OpinionSimon Willison·· 26 days ago

Engineer claims everyone from L1 to L7 at a big company uses Claude Code to write software

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A newly hired engineer at a large company says Claude Code generates everything on the team—specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets and their handling, and reports. Engineers from L1 to L7 are all doing the same thing: chatting with Claude. No one reads the output, no one on the team likes this workflow, but they are told to produce as much as possible. Senior leaders repeatedly say pushing code is not the bottleneck and ask why progress is still slow; employees work 12 to 13 hours a day just to press Enter.

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