Sprint after sprint we plan how long a list of tasks would take each dev to do and lock the sprint based on the effort and complexity of the work and, very regularly 2 weeks worth of work is getting done in around 1 week for 4 devs in my team. And every single time our manager, who is old school with 25+ years of experience, is surprised and asks how was that possible and the devs just say hard work and dedication and all the usual BS and no one is willing to admit that they are using Claude code to write 90% of their code. My manager is a bit detached from “AI for code” and only hears about it from us or some of the team events. My company has a physical service as a main product and SaaS is just an enabler. It is not a “software” only company whose survival is purely software. So, AI is not that at the forefront of the company. This time, we had a massive milestone of 8 weeks worth of work between 4 devs combined, and when the whole work was done in 3 weeks. During the daily scrum updates my manager was getting shocked everyday seeing how fast the implementation was progressing compared to the agreed timeline. At the end of 1st week he even called one of the dev MVP because he finished his 2 weeks tickets in 5 days. At the end of 3 weeks all 4 devs were done and when manager asked how was that possible, the same story, devs are just pretending that it is all hardwork and expertise which is allowing them to zip through the tasks but no one has admitted in front of manager that they used Claude Code to wrap up majority of work. Code review was often the bottleneck. Has this happened in your team or devs in your team are more willing to admit to the managers that they are using LLMs to write most of the code and are more forthcoming about it? Note: The company just provides a basic copilot subscription which runs out in few prompts. The devs are using their own personal AI to get the job done submitted by /u/simple_explorer1
Originally posted by u/simple_explorer1 on r/ClaudeCode