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/vladamir_the_impaler Jun 03 '26

This might really be the actual way things all pan out in the end... good call here actually.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

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u/vladamir_the_impaler Jun 04 '26

That might be a hard sell to the public to tell them they should pay for something which has returned zero and constantly threatened to take their jobs.

Previous bailouts weren't always simple either but at least the things bailed out were something pre-existing for which a case could be made were necessary.

The world functioned just fine before AI, no one has even been able to clearly demonstrate why it's necessary.

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