Software Engineer Says AI Is Causing Chaos Among Coders Who Now Just “Press Enter” All Day, Have Stopped Thinking or Understanding Software

A software engineer reports that reliance on Anthropic's Claude Code AI assistant is causing programmers at a major company to stop thinking critically, merely pushing buttons and not fixing bugs, leading to slow progress and low job satisfaction. Experts warn this trend risks increasing errors and security issues in AI-generated code, creating a divide between inexperienced AI-dependent coders and skilled craftsmen who must fix the output.