I would rather hear the answer “I don’t know. I had to look it up.” (And I don’t care what you have used as sources, as citing counts with norms/laws or in academics.)

If you really rewrite LLM’s response in your own words, I will know that you have learnt something.

Because if you tell me directly that you have asked Claude, next time I will probably ask Claude directly as I don’t need you.

And we won’t be able to distinguish what is yours and what is claude’s so I’ll be subconsciously suspicious that the whole answer is ai-generated (/skill me-persona-answer-descriptive)

That is the reason why doctors wear white and have stethoscope. In many cases people don’t argue with their opinion as they know that doctor had to spend 6 years to earn it. But if they admit LLM as a source they are becoming replaceable.

The emphasis should be on “rewriting”, even kids know copy-paste and it doesn’t count :)

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lazystar an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Because if you tell me directly that you have asked Claude, next time I will probably ask Claude directly as I don’t need you.

and what if i tell you i asked stack overflow?

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batshit_beaver 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Back in the day, you couldn’t ask stack overflow about your specific business or project. You were forced to build at least some level of understanding of what you were doing on the job or risk your lack of knowledge being obvious (and obviously holding you back).

What we’re seeing now is industrial grade ignorance that can only be observed in in-person or video meetings.

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sixtyj 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You were hired for your expertise, so make it happen.

Feel free to admit that you didn’t know and had to look it up, but no one wants to see a copy-and-paste answer.

That’s why I have mentioned need of rephrasing.

Using copy-paste answer: you’re saying that you are probably not the right person for the job.

Stack overflow or Claude or Wikipedia…it doesn’t matter.

We don’t usually tolerate copy-paste answers at school so why should it count at work?

	▲	nradov 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Work is not school. Within certain legal and ethical constraints, at work we only care about results.

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dbalatero an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean it was always easy enough to say "Hey not quite sure but I did find this post on SO, in case it helps"

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jimbokun an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You should abso-fucking-lutely use sources and cite them when trying to answer questions.

What is this macho bullshit of pretending like you have memorized all information you might ever need and looking something up is a sign of inadequacy?

And yes Claude or whatever is just another source, to be verified just like any other.

	▲	__david__ 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No one is saying to pretend you memorized everything. They’re saying they’d rather have an “I don’t know” than a half-assed ai response (or stack overflow cut and paste). Or, if you get nerd-sniped by the question and spend some time figuring it out, that’s fine too. But if you want to be helpful but don’t want to take the time to figure it out yourself, don’t just forward the question to AI or send me a link to the first result in Google because I could have done that myself(and may have done it already). Just say you don’t know, which is a paradoxically more useful response.