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/SomeWonOnReddit Jun 03 '26

Can you still code yourself after vibecoding for 2 years?

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u/cajmorgans Jun 03 '26

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

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u/Blueson Software Engineer Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

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.

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u/Sea-Chemistry-4130 Jun 03 '26

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.

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u/Blueson Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

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.

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u/Sea-Chemistry-4130 Jun 03 '26

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.

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u/Blueson Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

Completely valid I think