Comment by chatmasta
16 hours ago
I just don’t read this crap. The problem solves itself since anyone sending me that isn’t going to bother to follow up about it anyway.
16 hours ago
I just don’t read this crap. The problem solves itself since anyone sending me that isn’t going to bother to follow up about it anyway.
Unfortunately, there is pressure to treat this stuff in good faith. Maybe the PR author really did write all this. Maybe they really did spend 6 hours writing this document.
So, I approach it in good faith, but I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude". You need to be the intermediary, I can also prompt claude and read back the result. If you are going to hire an employee to do work on your behalf, you are responsible for their performance at the end of the day. And that's what an AI assistant is. The buck stops with you. But I don't think people understand that and that they don't understand they aren't adding value. At some point, you have to use your brain to decide if the AI is making sense, that's not really my job as the code/doc reviewer. I want to have a conversation with you, not your tooling, basically.
> If you are going to hire an employee to do work on your behalf, you are responsible for their performance at the end of the day.
So, what you are saying is that I should fire the bottom N% of underperforming agent instances?
You know, like employers do as opposed to taking any responsibility?
> I do get upset when people say "I'll ask claude"
The dude is just acting like a manager with a technical employee (agent) who does the hands-on work. If you are upset about this you should be hopping mad about the whole manager-director-VP-SVP hierarchy above this dude.
As long as each part of the hierarchy understands what they need to know at their level and what they produce, I have no problem with "the whole hierarchy".
You're saying this as if it's some rebuttal ad absurdum, when it's absolutely the case: when the higher layers don't understand what they do, we have a problem with that too, and that's been true since forever. Remember Dilbert and Office Space, and making fun of the ignorant middle managers and execs?
In this case, what we're complaining about is coders not understanding the code they ship (because some AI wrote it and they don't bother to review it or guide the AI fully).
They likely haven’t read it either, so they’ll never know you didn’t as well.
I just stopped reading my work emails and the announcement channels. Everything that actually matters either ends up DMed to me or shows up in my calendar.