To be honest, this is less about Claude Code per se (or any other coding agent) and more about business and corporate culture. In my experience, if you work at a company whose culture is to deliver as fast as possible, then this is ultimately what you get when those same managers start to realize we can also ship 10x faster (no matter the costs). The "Delivery Pressure" is very real in _some_ corporations, and I _believe_ things like Claude/Codex just accelerate this even more, which is what we're seeing in some places. In a fast-place industry, can you blame 'em?
This is very much about Claude Code and agentic coding. OP at Reddit describes their situation as a soul-sucking "pressing enter" existence. Not using any human traits. Not even communicating with other humans. That is vastly different to the hustling culture before LLMs. Company culture is orthogonal to the effect AI usage can have on mental health.
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