> I already did.

Well the people who keep bugging me verifiably do not, so that's tough.

On the off chance they do, they either spectacularly self-sabotage, or treat the response like they do a typical message box popup. So I'll be asked to essentially read the same thing out aloud, only for them to go "ok-ok". It's beyond insulting.

I'll 100% keep telling people to ask an LLM when I suspect this shit. They do NOT respect my time and attention, and have robustly demonstrated so. But then these are the same people who cannot internalize the idea behind nohello.net either (gotta remind them every few weeks/months), and have demonstrated this kind of helplessness even before LLMs, so it's clearly a deeper issue, likely cultural.

It seems your peers might have a similarly low opinion of you, or at least I'd definitely feature that as one of the options.

Even if they did ask the LLM, they might be bad at it, just like some people were bad at Google.

I used to stick people in front of a computer during interviews to see if they could do some basic stuff for an entry level sys admin position. If they wanted to use Google to look something up, that was fine. There were people who could not form a search query at all. It was painful to watch. Some of them would end up finding a blog post that had 4 of the 5 answers on it, but didn’t recognize what they were looking at, so they’d go back and keep looking. This was also painful. One guy wouldn’t even make an attempt and just left. I assume these types of people would also fail at asking an LLM.

Sometimes knowing the key words to use in the question matter a lot. Before LLMs, I would sometimes do some searches to try and figure out the correct term to search for, so that I could then make a proper search for what I needed. If someone is trying to fill in too many gaps in knowledge, this can be a real problem. LLMs can jump these gaps better, but still aren’t perfect.

I’ll have people come to me, not because they have a low opinion of me, but because they assume I know more of those words that they don’t know.

There have been several cases where people don’t want to bother me and they have spent hours calling actual support lines, searching online, trying random stuff, and then I answer it in 30 seconds… like the plumber that knows which pipe to hit.