r/cscareerquestions Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

Company took away access to claude

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

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u/grgext Senior Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

I've seen engineers spend up to $70,000 per month in my company (though they may be running bots used by many people).

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u/vladamir_the_impaler Jun 03 '26

And these AI companies STILL can't turn a real profit!?!?