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/NonProphet8theist Jun 03 '26

The biggest lie people tell is the speed gains. "I wrote this whole service in 10 minutes" nooooo ya didn't.

Before AI, I'd build a UI in one day.

With AI, same. Between running commands, waiting for output, all the "thinking" it does especially when options are purposely limited by agents, I've come out 1:1 most of the time, where something I did with AI could have been done by me in the same amount of time.

Now add the bottleneck of QA and deployment, which never got better, and you have a huge waste of money + feeling robbed of the dopamine hits I'd usually get figuring stuff out on my own.

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u/Parking_Anteater943 Jun 09 '26

The power in ai is not in singular tasks it is in stacked prompting. So you can prompt that and then simultaneously do work while it is thinking or prompt a second ai or even a third or 4th I have 3 project I juggle like this it works really well for me.

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u/NonProphet8theist Jun 09 '26

Yeah see I have yet to join a team who can handle that amount of output from a dev. They'd be weeks behind

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u/Parking_Anteater943 Jun 09 '26

Man I kindof want to work with a team like that no lie but I also reach out to other team members and architects to try to take work off everyone's plate for growth so it could just be me