A software engineer’s viral post about AI coding has set off a debate over whether the technology is making developers more productive — or reducing them to button-pushers.
An X user with the handle “v0xium,” who asked not to be named for fear of getting in trouble with his employer, said his new role at an undisclosed company had become “soul-sucking” because Claude Code generated everything from product specifications and tests to tickets and reports.
“Nobody knows anything here,” v0xium wrote in an X post on Sunday, which has been viewed nearly 5 million times as of Monday morning. “People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press…
