the alan situation

there's a lot of drama going on at work right now.

alan, our vp of technology, is trying to replace my entire team with cheaper workers out of manila. we're compensated pretty well so i guess we're a target. the thing is, he's completely out of touch. doesn't actually understand the codebase, doesn't take the time to read through it — instead he's been auditing our code with claude and sending the output straight to patrick, our cto, as if it's a real audit report.

the report was complete bullshit. nothing originally written, no actual understanding of the system — just claude saying "your code has issues" and alan putting his name on it. no context, no nuance, just vibes from an llm that hasn't seen the full picture.

it's frustrating because patrick might actually take it seriously.

and look — i'm completely open to real criticism. if someone reads the codebase, understands the context, and comes back with genuine feedback, i'll take it seriously and fix things. that's how it should work. but that's not what this is. this is someone using an llm as a weapon without understanding what they're looking at, purely to make us look bad so he can justify replacing us. bad intent dressed up as due diligence.

lazy people and stupid office politics are genuinely one of the most draining things about working in tech. and boomers who just discovered ai tools and think copy pasting claude output makes them look smart — that's a whole other level of cringe. you're not fooling anyone.