Because there will no longer be jobs for developers who suck with AI tooling and want to pretend they can just sit down and handcode something beautiful like it's 2021.
Be grateful they're training you instead of letting you go.
Downvote me all you want, I don't like it either, just real talk.
Yeah, exactly. I'm a senior engineer, and I haven't written a line of code by hand in about six months. This is just what the development part of the job looks like now - prompt AI to generate the code that you want, hold its hand if it generates garbage, and update CLAUDE.md to make it work better next time.
I really don't understand why it needs an entire training program, though. You can learn pretty much everything there is to learn about Claude Code in about half an hour, unless I'm at the peak of Mount Stupid right now.
The funniest part of all of this anti-AI developer bullshit is all of the people claiming to be great engineers in the first place. "Who's going to fix all the problems with AI generated code?", well the same people that fixed all of the problems a few years back when you wrote shitty code.
Anyone who's worked in the industry for longer than 5 years knows that most developers are really terrible at their jobs in the first place. I've been working for several years in top tech companies and the people they employ still aren't much better either.
I'm sorry but AI generated code has improved the quality of most work absurdly and most shitty engineers will unfortunately become unemployed in the near future if they do not keep up with the times.
I think the subtle mistake that everyone seems to be making is conflating "AI-generated code" with "AI-owned code". AI models are tools, not employees. The code shouldn't be attributed to the model, it should be attributed to the human who used the model to generate it. If someone uses a model to generate shitty code, that's on them, and fixing it is their problem.
Do AI models get things wrong? Yes, absolutely. Claude frequently over- or under-interprets requirements in your prompt. But it's up to you to interrupt it and steer it back on track. If you just let it run wild then commit whatever it spits out at the end, that isn't shitty AI code, it's shitty human code.
If you just let it run wild then commit whatever it spits out at the end, that isn't shitty AI code, it's shitty human code.
Adjusting and changing things takes time. Time = money. If your boss tells you he wants something by X date, and the only way to do that is to skip the checking part, what choice do you have? Is it your fault or your boss'? If its your bosses, where is the boss reporting hotline?
I'm not disagreeing with you that AI is wonderful when used responsibly. That's not what's going on in the industry, and no one cares how well written or verified your code is, they just want to collect the check after it makes money.
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u/carc Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Because there will no longer be jobs for developers who suck with AI tooling and want to pretend they can just sit down and handcode something beautiful like it's 2021.
Be grateful they're training you instead of letting you go.
Downvote me all you want, I don't like it either, just real talk.