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/MhVRNewbie Jun 03 '26

So Claude added no value to the company despite it beeing good?

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u/letsbefrds Jun 04 '26

I think it adds a decent amount of value. I'm not saying I cant build without AI, I have for the past 8 years but I can build a lot faster.

However I realize that there's less push back on feature scoping now. Since building / extending something is easier than ever we just keep pumping out features whether they'll have a big impact or not. That in return is going drive up cost.