Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter
AI Software vibe coding claude Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter "Nobody is thinking anymore" By Rob Thubron September 22, 2026, 6:15 Add TechSpot Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: One of the many things we were promised that AI would enable was making coders super productive.
- ▪AI Software vibe coding claude Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter "Nobody is thinking anymore" By Rob Thubron September 22, 2026, 6:15 Add TechSpot Serving tech enthusiasts
- ▪TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust.
- ▪A hot potato: One of the many things we were promised that AI would enable was making coders super productive.
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| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:15 -0500 |
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AI Software vibe coding claude Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter "Nobody is thinking anymore" By Rob Thubron September 22, 2026, 6:15 Add TechSpot Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. A hot potato: One of the many things we were promised that AI would enable was making coders super productive. But one software engineer's viral post claims it is reducing employees to little more than unskilled drones who work "12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter." The engineer, who posted anonymously on X under the username voxium for fear of reprisal from his employer, called his new role at an undisclosed company "soul-sucking." There are doubtlessly quite a few people…
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