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Quoting voxium

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  • The quote from ‘voxium’ describes a dysfunctional “big company” environment where extreme reliance on “Claude Code” (an LLM) for all development artifacts—from specs and code to PRDs and tickets—has led to a complete lack of human understanding.
  • Engineers across all levels (L1 to L7) are reduced to working 12-13 hours daily, primarily interacting with the LLM, creating a “press enter” culture where “nobody is reading anything” and “nobody knows anything.”
  • This scenario highlights a critical disconnect where higher management questions why the team is slow despite “pushing code” not being a bottleneck, failing to recognize that the absence of human comprehension and quality, due to AI over-automation, is the true impediment.