I’ve seen this at work and it drives me nuts. I don’t value my time extraordinarily highly but even still I find it disrespectful to offload my question and make me read something they didn’t even bother to read.

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dist-epoch an hour ago | parent [-]

Same argument can be used against you: why do you bother someone with a question and want them to dedicate time to answer it for you when that question is easily google-able or answered by an LLM?

It costs you seconds to ask the question, and you want them to invest minutes in answering it?

You invest seconds in a question, they invest seconds in the answer. Seems like a fair deal to me.

	▲	throwaway27727 44 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Saw this in a PR review yesterday. Reviewer made comments about the reasonableness of a solution and alternatives to consider. Submitter posted an LLM response that gives zero additional context about the PR. As the submitter, you should be the one with the context, not the reviewer, and having an LLM answer doesn't provide that additional context.
	▲	contravariant an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I just want them to tell me if they don't know. It's the one question that AIs seem unable to answer correctly.
	▲	saintfire an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Maybe they already did and the answer was in some way lacking so they asked a peer. Being mentored is infinitely better than a text box spitting out subtly wrong answers.
	▲	isidisjcisjcud 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Same argument can be used against you That’s false equivalence and I think you know that.