A junior cloud engineer’s real struggle with Claude-assisted work
This is a firsthand experience from a four months into a first development job. After graduating in 2024 and working in IT support, the move into development has been exciting, especially work, but frequent mistakes have created real doubt about job .
There has still been clear progress: the company’s now makes sense, the assigned complex deployment system can be debugged, explained, and described in detail. One project was meant to let people fully tear down workflows across all environments, but it took nearly two full sprints to build and close to three with testing and .
Claude and other AI tools were needed throughout the work, and the team uses AI heavily enough that senior engineers say they do not really code much anymore. The process itself is understandable, but the work missed how slowly some buckets could be deleted.
Key points
- A new developer can make real progress in four months while still feeling unsure.
- Claude and other AI tools helped with a complex project, but the work still took several sprints.
- The team’s senior engineers also rely heavily on AI instead of hand-coding everything.
- Testing and added major time beyond the first build.
- work must account for slow cloud , such as bucket deletion.