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I am in service-based company, and started on this project of developing ans application from scratch. It's been more than 1 year now and no one have really done any coding in heirarchy including freshers till Tech lead. Everyone uses Claude and other models, even for analysis, requirement understanding through LLD, HLD and writing actual code.

Is it good for career switch? I mean I can still code well without these models, but it's preety fast and even gives some good approaches, so for that reason everyone in my team is using. but downside you reduce thinking over problems and and mostly rely on these models, which doesn't seems to be a good thing. All we do is review code and then again TL reviews it before pushing it to main branch. I want to understand what should I do as I am looking for switching company with 2YOE. Any suggestions?

Recently, my organization downgraded our Copilot/Claude plans because the budget was getting out of hand. Now, we can barely "vibe code" anymore.

We have to do all the heavy lifting—analyzing legacy code written by coworkers, debugging, optimizing, and programming—entirely on our own again. Most of us burned through our newly restricted monthly limits in just 10 days. As you'd expect, tasks are taking us much longer now, just like in the pre-LLM era.

The Good Part is we found out we’re still fully capable of coding, debugging, and analyzing on our own, even after a long break from manual work. In fact, we can feel more control over the architecture now. Sometimes Claude (which we used the most) would make assumptions about scenarios that were occasionally(80:20) wrong, but it was also fantastic at catching edge cases—especially Opus.

Has anyone else's organization reduced their plans or outright banned LLMs recently? How is it going for everyone else out there?