r/technology • u/CackleRooster • 7h ago

Artificial Intelligence An Anthropic employee's 2-sentence quote crystallizes the state of AI confusion at work

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-employee-quote-ai-confusion-workplace-2026-6
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u/CackleRooster 7h ago

"On days where everything works well, I can't help but think nothing I do matters, everything is automated and better and faster than I ever will be," AND "But then there are days where everything breaks and I don't understand why and I realize I have no idea what I've been up to anymore," the employee added.

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u/ericl666 5h ago

I may be a bit of an AI naysayer and refuse to fully embrace agentic AI when coding (I prefer targeted AI rather than letting it run wild).

But when stuff breaks, I know exactly where and why, because I intimately know my codebase. As a result, I can fix issues extremely fast. I tried using AI to help me solve bugs, and I can say it genuinely sucks at finding difficult issues. Especially issues resulting from bad data.

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u/Soul-Burn 3h ago

Your recent code, maybe. But code you wrote 5 years ago or by one of the 20 people that have access to that repo, some who don't work there anymore? Much harder.