Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?

kept by eddie mar 06

Big tech engineers report AI tools increase PR volume and development speed but also introduce more bugs, reduce code review quality, and shift culture toward quantity over quality.

The Era of Tokenmaxxing
Shopify approaches 100% daily AI tool adoption among employees, with CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex gaining share while IDE-based tools decline, though top percentile token users grow faster than the rest.
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Claude and Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub - GitHub Changelog
Claude and Codex coding agents are now in public preview for Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise customers, enabling agent sessions from GitHub.com, mobile, and VS Code.
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