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Comment by metabagel

7 hours ago

Would you be OK with someone looking up the answer on the internet?

You mean like when juniors would copy paste Stack Overflow without verifying or even understanding it?

No. We hated that too.

Actual research is, of course, fine.

  • I see a possible misunderstanding on my part here.

    My experience has typically been that engineers respond, "Claude said..." and then say what they think about it. If people are really receiving just a straight dump of AI response from their colleagues, then yeah, I would be disappointed too.

    But, I have no problem receiving from a colleague, "Claude says ..., but I don't know what to make of it." The embedded space can be really hard, so I don't fault someone for feeling clueless about something. I feel that way every time I get handed something new to work on which I have zero experience with.

    • We're all complaining about the low effort verbatim dumps, not disclosing Claude usage as part of an earnest attempt to help.