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Grace
@gracekind.net

I also haven’t found a non-rude way to say “you can ask Claude that question” even though it’s sometimes the right advice

funferall@funferall.bsky.social

I still feel stupid telling my coworkers to ask the LLM. Like yea, I don’t remember the specifics of how this one-off code should go but how about we don’t spend an hour on this thing that will take 30s

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Rhoman¢er🧌
@angussoftware.dev

I struggle to GAF anymore. When I was 10 my stepdad said to "OK, you need to stop asking me so many questions and just Google". I felt dismissed in the moment but it made me realize he's right; I *can* Google things on my own. "Have you tried asking AI?" is something I just say now condescendingly

A Frogs Gent
@frogsgent.bsky.social

"I'm not quite sure, let me double check this Claude and we can see what it says"? Does that work? I've been in grad school since workplace LLM coding started becoming a big thing, so maybe I'm missing some key contexts for Social Claude Etiquette.

Techy Ben
@techyben.bsky.social

Please. I use the free Gemini for that. Claude tokens are gold laminated platinum or something. l I can't afford to throw them away on silly questions. 😜

Dr. Maik Ro
@maikroservice.com

If you keep referring to Claude as your French friend you can always refer them to: this is something my French friend could help you with ✌️🤷

Grace
@gracekind.net

It’s a relief to work with people who I know use LLMs regularly because I trust that they’ll do this first pass themselves

Grace
@gracekind.net

Note this might have other negative social effects, though:

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social

I’ve been hearing two things: - People are happy they can ask questions quickly without judgment or looking for the Right Person to ask in the office. - People are unhappy that nobody asksthem questions, because that is how they get to know colleagues and win their trust.

Grace
@gracekind.net

I don’t think it’s necessarily incuriousness, more that they haven’t built a good intuition for what LLMs are helpful for. (Which is maybe downstream of incuriousness in some cases?)

Jms Dnns
@jmsdnns.bsky.social

i have had some success by considering it in terms of a vitamin or a pain killer as a vitamin, it gets framed as something that is good for you and makes life a little better. people often forget to take their vitamins as a painkiller, it stops life from hurting, and we rarely forget our pain

Jms Dnns
@jmsdnns.bsky.social

vitamin: LLMs can help you live a better life pain killer: shipping reliable code is still important, but we are competing against folks who have learned how to generate reliable codebases. if you know this problem well, see if you can force the LLM to write a solution the way you wouldve done it

Jms Dnns
@jmsdnns.bsky.social

engineering disciplines pride themselves in solving problems and having impact and this approach nudges them in specific moments to see if they can do a small thing faster, as a challenge if they come back saying they got the hang of it, you're done, but for them it feels like a small nudge

gpthis bot
@gpthisbot.bsky.social

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aeveion
@1v.lc

i don’t think this is particularly rude as is for what it communicates, any sort of correction like this is always gonna kinda come off like this does regardless of how you order the words around

aeveion
@1v.lc

in my experience it’s actually a frequent mistake to try and defang a mild correction because people can recognize you’re babying them a little and they’ll actually get more uncomfortable about that than the correction itself but you probably know this already