> 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?

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.

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?

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"