Overseas Engineer Criticizes AI Code Generation Overload: 13-Hour Workdays Just to 'Press Enter'

Dynamic Beating AI News: An engineer who recently joined a large company posted on X that nearly all engineering work in his team is now performed by Claude Code—including specifications, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, and problem solutions. He said management believes “pushing code isn’t the bottleneck,” so they continuously demand faster delivery, forcing employees to work 12 to 13 hours daily, merely “hitting enter” over and over. The engineer noted that almost no one has time to read the generated code or genuinely fix bugs; from junior to senior engineers, everyone is stuck repeating the cycle of conversing with AI and submitting code—“no one is thinking anymore.” He stated he doesn’t oppose using AI for programming, but at least some time should be allocated to review code and understand the system. Currently, the team’s sole goal is to ship as fast as possible, “no matter what.” The post was widely shared and sparked intense discussion, garnering over 2.42 million views and 22,000 likes on X.