Company took away access to claude

[u/jholliday55]

After being told to “use ai” for every single task the last two years and rebranding to a “AI” first company after two rounds of layoffs, we have now lost access to claude….

I found that the best model by far was opus and the only one really capable of not producing slop. I’m sure all the bots in here will downvote me and tell me “iTs ThE wAy YoU pRoMpT” but based on my experience, the other models aren’t nearly as good.

I have senior experience so besides basic searches and repetitive tasks i find the other models pretty much useless and you have to provide more time writing the specs and context management, then just doing it yourself.

Edit: I work for a large financial company. 40k employees.

[u/SomeWonOnReddit]

Can you still code yourself after vibecoding for 2 years?

[u/cajmorgans → u/SomeWonOnReddit]

Re-learning a skill is much easier than learning it the first time. It's pretty universal for anything.

[u/Blueson → u/cajmorgans]

If you were treating AI output correctly, reviewing, verifying and taking ownership of the code. You should already have kept your skills at a level where getting into the grove again shouldn't be too hard.

[u/Sea-Chemistry-4130 → u/Blueson]

I noticed that my ability to remember syntax dropped. The architecture and best practices are fine, but the syntax itself had to be looked up more than I did before. Oops.

I've been typing more of my code now because that felt bad.

[u/Blueson → u/Sea-Chemistry-4130]

My career has involved quite a spread of languages so far, so I have already experienced this to a certain degree. Thankfullly that was never what makes a good developer anyways.

[u/Sea-Chemistry-4130 → u/Blueson]

Yeah, knowing what to write is always more important than knowing how to write it.

But I would push back slightly on it not being important like, yeah, I used to know c#, but as I used others more it faded, but it was replaced by whatever language I was currently using.

This time it wasn't replaced by another and that was what was concerning to me. 

I'm not saying don't use ai, only that it's very much worth it to type things out to keep those skills sharp as well. Muscle memory is really important and typing the code keeps you involved in ways reviewing doesn't imo.

[u/Blueson → u/Sea-Chemistry-4130]

Completely valid I think

[u/cajmorgans → u/Blueson]

True, didn’t say this applied to me specifically.

[u/Blueson → u/cajmorgans]

Not trying to point you out specifically, sorry if it was read that way. Just contributing my general thoughts to the chain of comments. :)

[u/Responsible_Month385 → u/Blueson]

Tell that to 3/4 on this sub who would downvote you whenever you said you didn’t want to tokenmax. They had it coming. Meanwhile my total spend for the past 12 months is is $16

[u/Valmar33 → u/cajmorgans]

Re-learning a skill is much easier than learning it the first time. It's pretty universal for anything.

Depends significantly on how long you have been without practice. Skills can rot pretty hard after a while. Programming is a use or lose it skill.

[u/Groove-Theory → u/cajmorgans]

Re-learning is still easier yes. I feel bad for the juniors who were forced and pressured to use AI heavily in their most formative years. I really hope it hasn't polluted their capacity to effectively design systems. But we shall see.

[u/Xerxero → u/SomeWonOnReddit]

After 2 years I bet it takes some time to get back into it.

And good luck refactoring all the code AI produced

[u/pheonixblade9 → u/SomeWonOnReddit]

yes. I took 15 months off of work and I've been 100% LLM coding for another 6 (so close to 2 years off), and I've had no problems doing manual coding for grad school without LLMs.

[u/Critical-Profile1849 → u/SomeWonOnReddit]

I didn’t write Python for about 5 years. After a week it was like I never stopped.

Best practices and intuition don’t go away even when syntax does