Post #4820756 · Elektrine

2026-09-23 16:14 UTC

One of the top threads on the ClaudeAI subreddit right now: "I am done with this shit" https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wm5c21/i_am_done_with_this_shit/ Curious to see just how much of the thread on a quite pro-genAI subreddit is people commiserating on the exhaustion of their work turning primarily into tedium and poor engineering. Bonus in that the Claude AI summary bot in the thread says: > The Rise of the Meat Proxy: You're not an engineer anymore, you're an "organic vessel designed to press enter." Or, as one user so poetically put it, you're just a condom between Claude and your production server getting fucked. Your only real job is to be the warm body they can blame when the AI slop inevitably breaks.

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@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange 2026-09-23 16:35

@cwebber@social.coop and something has snapped.

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@alice@lgbtqia.space 2026-09-23 18:01

@cwebber@social.coop "you're just a condom between Claude and your production server getting fucked" is the best description of modern software engineering I've read in a while.

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@pinhman@humanwords.party 2026-09-23 18:40

@cwebber@social.coop reminds of Canadian agriculture, with all the highly integrated multinational service and supply corporations set up to be as profitable as possible, the individual farm organization is now setup to take all the risks. It’s the farmer that will fail, none of the corporations setup to profitize from this. It’s the pathetic human “programmer” setup to take the fail. AI is guaranteed to remain profitable.

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@hsza@social.tudbut.de 2026-09-24 15:09

@cwebber@social.coop the slow and painful awakening to what slop actually does to a project. nice

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