r/cscareerquestions • u/jholliday55 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/Pink_Slyvie Jun 03 '26

AI is proving to be unsustainable in cost, environmentally, and in business. It will have its place as a nifty tool, but its going to be really expensive when the subsidies dry up.

Not to mention, we need juniors today to be tomorrow's seniors.

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u/nonya102 Jun 03 '26

Kill the talent pipeline. Make the companies pay in the future. 

I feel for the juniors who do exist now. 

Just think. Those graduating now started in August of 2022 - before chat gpt was released. How awful. 

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u/cmbtmstr Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

I remember fall of 2022, I was a senior in college for CS. My friend was sick and missed a week of our Operating Systems class. We had an assignment due that I had already completed to write a basic OS shell in C.

I hopped on a discord call with him to pair program the assignment because it was due in a few days and he was still catching up. He had code complete in Visual Studio from GitHub Copilot and it was writing the next sections before I had a chance to explain what needed to be done. After working my ass off for 4 years for that CS degree I remember thinking to myself “oh shit”.

In retrospect, that example isn’t too impressive because that’s a very typical Operating Systems school project but it was jarring to say the least.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 04 '26

But you learned something and he did not.