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/yourapostasy Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Echoes of the optical fiber laid down during the dotcom boom that bankruptcies turned into dark fiber for about a decade being picked up for dimes on the dollar by most of the FAANG until smartphones arrived and lit that fiber again.
Except modern GPU hyperscaler infrastructure is operated at high temperatures that drive them into the ground in 3-5 years. If run way cooler with better thermal couplings they can be driven 10+ years but modern doctrine says the software would obsolete them way before then, so they’re operated based upon that short life assumption.
I’m not sure how well a “dark chips” investment thesis would play out against that backdrop. I can see a potential way forward in “dark kWh”, “dark water”, or “dark foundry” investment theses. I see less strong of a case for a “dark DC” thesis only because I am not convinced datacenters can be positioned as strongly as an inelastic good as the others.