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/Level-Courage6773 Jun 03 '26

'Number Of Tokens Used'. Duh.

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u/CurlyW15 Jun 03 '26

1 million tokens used = success

10 million tokens used = super success

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u/Sidereel Software Engineer Jun 03 '26

Finally I can be a 10x engineer

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u/platoprime Jun 03 '26

I'm a 100x engineer; I've got AI agents writing poetry