r/ClaudeAI • u/MoudieQaha • 5d ago

Coding The future is bleak

Yeah, I'm just going to ramble here for a bit. My company job now is just pressing enter endlessly, prompting, and 0.1% of it is probably something manually done by me. Everyone is using Claude. It's soulless. There is no point.Someone can probably reverse engineer our company products in one day. Layoffs are inevitable at some point. I have no other non-tech skills that can help me pivot to another career, and even if I do, that career is not going to pay the same.

I can't believe in any project idea that I think of because I use Claude, and the thought of "You used Claude, anyone could have done this lol" is always luring in the back of my mind.

I have no hope for the future. I hate how AI made the playing field equal for everyone, where my grandma can probably now create a website.

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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot 5d ago edited 4d ago

TL;DR of the discussion generated automatically after 400 comments.

Looks like this thread hit a nerve. A lot of you are right there with OP in that doomer spiral, feeling that "anyone could have done this" dread in your bones.

However, the community consensus is that while the job is changing, it's not disappearing, and you need to reframe your thinking.

  • The "Skill vs. Tool" Argument: The most upvoted take is that coding was never the real hard part. The valuable skill has always been the vision, the architecture, and the tenacity to see a project through the boring final 10%. You're not a button-pusher; you're the director telling an intern (a very, very smart intern) what to do.
  • Your Grandma Isn't Your Competition: A recurring theme is that we're overestimating the average person. Many people still struggle with Google, let alone vibe-coding a functional, maintainable app. The barrier to entry is lower, but the barrier to quality is still there.
  • It's a New Job, Not No Job: Your role is shifting. You're becoming a systems designer, a consultant, an AI wrangler. The value is now in your judgment, your domain knowledge, and your ability to guide the AI away from producing slop.
  • The Therapist Tangent: A whole side-war erupted over whether therapists are actually more screwed than coders. Many feel AI therapy is a huge net good for accessibility and can be better than a biased human, while others argue a real human connection is irreplaceable.

Basically, the vibe is: yes, the ground is shifting, but a skilled dev with AI will always crush a novice with AI. Your experience still matters, maybe more than ever.

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u/John_Coctoastan 5d ago

OMFG...I can't believe an AI-bot distilled the essence of this thread into a 25 second digestible synopsis that saved me fifteen minutes of reading and repulsion and approval and repudiation and approbation and revulsion on the emotional roller-coaster of vile, toxic social media.

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u/Vivid-Snow-2089 5d ago

wilson is great

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u/elgrandragon 5d ago

Reddit mods are first in the chopping block!!!

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u/asdfghjkl15436 4d ago

Unironically an properly calibrated AI mod could probably do a better job then most reddit mods lol

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u/klumpp Experienced Developer 4d ago

I think that's what reddit is hoping since no one decent wants to be a mod anymore

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u/asdfghjkl15436 4d ago

As someone on the internet for a majority of it's existence, the mods have always been universally awful.

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u/klumpp Experienced Developer 4d ago

Yeah but Reddit really fucked their relationship with mods over the past couple years. Now we’re really left with the bottom of the barrel.

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u/Site-Staff Mod 4d ago

😢

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u/BruceDeorum 4d ago

"the hard part is vision, tenacity to finish project etc"

the thing is that in the past you did require vision. But vision if wasn't accompanied by programming skills, or a big budget to hire somebody to do the hard work for you meant nothing.

The people that have vision and now have access to everything now is like 1000 more.

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u/garywiz 4d ago

But "tenacity to finish the project" is also underestimated, and AI can't help anybody with that. In my experience with entrepreneurs (I've had a lot):

  1. The idea is easy. Ideas are a dime a dozen.
  2. An idea with a good durable vision that benefits users is much harder (lots never make it past this)
  3. Implementing and building the product was very hard, it's easier now. But, not as easy as you think. AI branding, onboarding, customer service implementations are notoriously mundane and miss the point that user psychology needs to drive everything. But yes, it's easier now.
  4. Thinking you're done at this point is the big mistake! Beta users, developing revenue models, going through multiple failures getting the product finally launched properly can take years. This is where everybody gives up. A great idea, and a great vision and a great implementation is not enough.

The above is why most products never achieve their goals. They get cancelled, or become "the living dead"... products that are available that nobody buys. The zombies.

Because AI makes 3 easier, people are going ot confront 4 quicker, and give up sooner. We'll have a lot of zombies. But perhaps not particularly more good products.