| ▲ | ventana 4 days ago |
| One of the ways not to get LMGTFY / Ask Claude as a response is to provide more information and proof of work when asking a question. Compare: — What's the best way of doing X? — Ask Claude. vs: — I thought about this and found there are options A, B, and C of doing X, I like A more but C is the fastest; what do you think? I believe a normal senior engineer won't suggest to talk to Claude in this case. |
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| ▲ | theorchid 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| — I thought about this and found there are options A, B, and C of doing X, I like A more but C is the fastest; what do you think? — Ask Claude. |
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| ▲ | hoppp 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Its a way to say I don't care, don't waste my time | | |
| ▲ | 9dev 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That's the malevolent version of it. The alternative might be, I also don't know this from the top of my head and could spend some time to google/ask Claude/read the documentation/familiarize myself with the concrete code and/or problem at hand, but then again so can you and our collective time is better spent if I take care of my problems and you take care of yours, but if you really can't find a solution on your own and still need help please come back to me any time with a very concrete question you need my input on. | | |
| ▲ | theamk 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Or, in shorter words: "I don't care, stop wasting my time" I get those kinds of question all the time ("I like A more but C is the fastest; what do you think?"), but when I don't care or don't know, I prefer to say this directly: "I am not very familiar with this area of the code, so I can't really answer" "I'd need to do some research for that, but sadly I am pretty busy. But I like simple solutions, it would be nice to do this without yet another microservice of possible" Just saying "Ask Claude" seems pretty rude. |
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| ▲ | anon7000 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Well, it’s fucking annoying. When I’m asking a question and I put time into understanding the context and problem space, and already did some analysis with AI, I’m looking for a human opinion. I want my colleagues who know stuff to use their experience and their brain for a second to help the team. I don’t need Claude to give a second opinion on something that Claude already ran through. It’s fucking useless and it’s a huge blind spot. This shit happens when everyone in an organization is expected to use Claude to answer questions and do the initial investigation / analysis. Yeah, I did that. Now let’s get to work as humans and provide our expertise, and not turn it into an AI circle jerk. | |
| ▲ | XorNot 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which is funny because a huge number of people post this in responses to online asynchronous messages, on public forums, when they could also do literally anything else - like close the browser tab. | | |
| ▲ | hoppp 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Intelligence is outsourced so now people who don't like to think they don't have to do it anymore. | |
| ▲ | Barbing 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wellll lots of those people you’re referring to are human, and when have we ever let it be?! |
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| ▲ | watwut 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | This exchange sounds like "eff you". I would much rather hear "I don't have opinion" or "I don't know". A person asked you, because they are interested in your opinion. You dont have duty to provide it, but you can just say that without being jerk. |
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| ▲ | andy99 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I’m assuming this person did ask in the second way, it’s hard to imagine someone working through a problem that has already tried a bunch of stuff just going in cold and not providing any context and saying “How do I do X?” Good advice obviously if it’s not being followed already but also likely over-simplifying the problem. Also a normal person on the receiving end would probe a bit about what has already been tried. Which to be fair makes the whole thing a bit weird and does sound more like she’s being brushed off. |
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| ▲ | jibal 4 days ago | parent [-] | | It's highly unlikely that the conversation actually happened as reported. At the very least, something was said after "Ask Claude". |
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| ▲ | nmstoker 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yes, the importance of asking a question to demonstrate you've invested effort cannot be overstated. Without knowing what/how they asked, it's difficult but I would be tempted to suspect this was actually a way to say "please stop asking me questions" |
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| ▲ | q8zd3 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I lost track how many times I heard or read "I asked Claude to do X. It seems to work". |
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| ▲ | iLoveOncall 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Anyone who recommends to ask an LLM in the first situation will do so in the second because they're a shit engineer. "Ask the LLM" is not at all a valid answer in a professional context where part of your job is to educate the less experienced, no matter how little effort is put in the question. |
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| ▲ | bluefirebrand 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Sometimes part of the education is teaching people how to ask better questions, and that they need to do their research before asking you | | | |
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| ▲ | bastardoperator 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Agreed, you can also preface the question. I've checked A, B, and C with AI, curious to get your opinion/thoughts? I don't think anyone in any industry regardless of seniority would redirect you back to AI assuming you're having a genuine conversation. |
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| ▲ | jibal 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's highly unlikely that the conversation actually happened as reported. At the very least, something was said after "Ask Claude". |
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| ▲ | XorNot 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| LMGTFY for you was infuriating because it was 100% of the top Google responses to specific searches. |
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| ▲ | Terr_ 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Generally I didn't unleash one of those without already being extremely certain that what they needed would be a top result. However, search has become enshittified, and I don't think LLM chatbots have achieved a similar level of certainty, so it may just be the end of an era for me. |
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