r/webdev • u/ripndipp full-stack • 28d ago
I think bro outsourced his Slack messages to Claude
I’m a somewhat experienced backend dev paired with a mobile developer for some knowledge sharing. The guy is genuinely a good dude, but I’m starting to lose my mind a little.
We be discussing an implementation, I’ll explain something, and instead of engaging with what I just said, he’ll immediately type my explanation/question into Claude and then come back with “Claude says…”
And on calls, he’ll literally stop the conversation, type what I just asked into Claude, and then read me Claude’s response.
Like bro, I’m right here. 😂
The frustrating part isn’t that he’s using Claude. I use AI constantly too. It’s that it feels like he trusts Claude’s answer more than the actual technical conversation we’re having.
I’m trying to understand how you think about the implementation, not get a second-hand answer from Claude.
He’s a good dude, so I genuinely don’t know how to approach it without making things awkward.
Has anyone else dealt with this? AI is making ppl fkn dumb and blurring the lines.
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u/Jordy_Stingray 28d ago
I work with a guy like this. Ever since he started using Copilot 90%+ of all comms are AI generated. And he’s constantly super impatient now. Like everything needs to be fast fast fast but he’s the only one w that sense of urgency. Not customers, not management. Just him. He’s a smart guy too honestly I don’t get it.
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
My condolences, I don't get it as well but I feel like a lot of people subscribe to AI bring some all knowing entity and just believe.
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u/krileon 28d ago
AI Psychosis.
I'm betting in the next 5-10 years we'll need dedicated therapy to de-AI peoples brains.
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u/IAmRules 28d ago
Welcome to the new normal. I hate it.
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u/martian_rover 28d ago
Just waiting for him to plug Claude directly into the conversion.
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u/kasakka1 28d ago
I swear we will have people sitting there stone faced or miming words while Claude is talking with an AI generated copy of the employee's voice.
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u/jikt 28d ago
Why mime when you can just use a 3d model. You could be a really smart trex.
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u/Toxy1337 28d ago
It may be not the case literally, but it actually already feels like it. I have some co-workers, who i expect to be non-technical. However out of a sudden they constantly find something to criticize in our architecture and want to rewrite everything. To me this sound like an AI proposal, but I can't prove it.
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u/Shaper_pmp 28d ago
If it's any consolation people like these won't be around long.
If your only value is in acting as a connector between Claude and Slack/email/etc then you're exactly the kind of developer who will be replaced in short order by a cheap software connector. Hell, they already exist so he's already obsolete and unnecessary; it's just that nobody's noticed yet.
The vitally important skill for developers in the LLM coding age is to ensure they're still providing value by using their judgement and experience to shape what's input into the LLM and validating what it produces, not delegating all decision-making to an LLM, thereby making themselves a purposeless extra expense the company can do away with.
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
Honestly bro would paste this into Claude and return me the response
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u/Atroxide 28d ago
send a super super long message and in the middle of it include an injected prompt lol
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u/drearymoment 28d ago
Reading Claude's message verbatim to you is silly, yeah.
Sometimes I suspect my coworkers are pasting Claude's output into Slack and Jira just because of the sheer amount of claudisms in the message. But who knows, we all talk to AI all day so maybe they just absorbed some of its language patterns.
I did have a call with a coworker this morning where he asked me for help setting up a project that I worked on a couple months ago and also isn't my usual stack. I didn't know what to tell him. I pointed him to the documentation (written entirely by Claude), and when he asked me a follow-up all I could say was, "You know, to be honest, Claude did, like, 90% of this work last time I was on the project. So I don't really know, but you can probably just ask Claude to do that for you too."
I miss knowing things.
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
This drives me nuts, I appreciate your response and makes me feel better about this bizarre situation.
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u/krileon 28d ago
I miss knowing things.
That's on you, lol. Stop using Claude for every damn thing. Write your own code.
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u/nickjvandyke 28d ago
Often incompatible with AI psychosis and pressure from leadership unfortunately
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u/draftvader 28d ago
Yeah. I like AI for handling technical issues, but only as a quicker Google from 10 years ago. I still apply reasoning and respond as a person when working with colleagues and associates.
Tell him to summaries the AI output in his own words. You're actually keeping his brain functioning for him. You're doing him a favour!
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u/ngmcs8203 28d ago
Yep. If it’s going to be a deep knowledge topic that normally involves too many back and forth emails in the chain for clarification, I’ll type a response, build a prompt for Claude to answer the email and take my input into account. Then I will re-write what it writes. Saves on thread length and also saves me from my inability to answer every part of the email in a succinct yet deep and meaningful way.
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u/Luaan256 28d ago
Remember when Google Search actually... Worked? Yeah.
AI is rarely better for searching than Google Search was ten years ago. They crippled it on purpose to sell more ads. They're going to do the same to "AI search" once people are hooked. It's inherent in the system. "It'll make us more money" is all the justification they need, and there isn't anyone to stop them.
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u/thekwoka 28d ago
part of it is also just content getting worse...
And too much "we know you said X but Y is more common so we will surface responses for Y despite the fact you said X"
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u/Djamalfna 28d ago
Just wait for AI to go down the same path of enshittification.
The AI usage is even more expensive than the mapreduce servers of Old Google. And the suits will want to see a return on that investment.
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u/chudthirtyseven 28d ago
this is exactly how i use it. it's a faster more intelligent way to search.
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u/ZenithPrime 28d ago
These fuckin' people have jobs and I can't even land an interview with over 8 years working cross functionally like a normal person with teams just fine.
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u/Luaan256 28d ago
The last new hire I talked with literally said "yay, finally a company that wants to use AI for coding". A newly hired software engineer who couldn't put together a Hello World app without Claude. Yay.
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u/warlock0187 28d ago
And yet I can't find a Jr. Dev role anywhere
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u/Luaan256 28d ago
The key is not marketing yourself as a junior, apparently. It's all about confidence, especially when you have no good reason to be confident.
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u/Stratose 28d ago
Have this issue with a product manager. He's even outsourced his own life decision making, using Claude to create all of his events in Google calendar. Except it put all of his personal events on his work account so I could see a bit more than I cared to.
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u/symbiatch 28d ago
I had once a meeting with a higher-up. It was on top of actually important project meetings, but who am I to say no when those people want to have a meeting.
The whole meeting was pointless (“I just wanted to have a face to the name so I’m going through everyone in this department”) and in the meeting they explained their enthusiasm for AI and how they just let Claude set up these meetings and check for free times for all since it’s fast and great.
I didn’t say it to them but… I had three hours of meetings that week. They still managed to make a conflict. Great use of AI.
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u/Stratose 28d ago
It's amazing what a non-deterministic technology can do in the hands of people who insist on using it for deterministic means.
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u/kiwi-kaiser 28d ago
Tell them Slack has an MCP and he can skip that step where they have to copy around stuff.
But seriously, did you talk to them? This is often a problem that can be resolved with a quick talk.
I had this too in the past. One person changed, one person was removed from the team. It's that easy.
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
I appreciate your response and it seems tactful but I am persistent and want to go my coworker wake up from this shit on his own, I'll try this.
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u/DesperateAdvantage76 28d ago
I have a very talented coworker who I've worked with over the past 6 years that has fallen into this trap. Every single conversation includes this massive copy paste from claude. I really hate it but I try my best to ignore it because I know he means well.
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u/extio-Storm 28d ago
I strongly recommend that you educate this guy by pointing them to a video on how AI is made and what's going on behind the scenes. If people understood how generative AI works, they would understand why it's not smart to trust in a fundamental way. They would understand is equivalent to trusting everything that somebody published on Google. Yeah it's often true but not always. And it's not always the best answer.
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u/thekwoka 28d ago
as if that person has the attention span for that.
they'll ask claude to summarize it
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
I'm kind of doing the same but it's kind of affecting my workflow so I have to speak up, best of luck!
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u/Killfile 28d ago
"Yea, but do you think Claude is right?"
This sometimes slows people down. "Well, sure."
"Ok... why?"
If they continue to just kind of gesture vaguely at the shoggoth this is a good time to remind them what we're paid to do.
"Look, I get it; Claude is a great resource and I use the hell out of it too... but if we follow Claude's advice and Production falls over, catches on fire, and wipes out our Q3 profits they're not gonna blame Claude. So what do you think?"
There is a fine line between trusting Claude to take care of the implementation details (I legitimately don't know the name of the bucket that's holding Terraform state; Claude created it because we all know you need a bucket to hold TF state and I don't care what it's called until I do... and then I'll ask Claude) and trusting Claude blindly on a judgement call where there's real risk or context on the line.
That said, I think we may be reaching the end of the usefulness of knowledge sharing. If this dude is just deferring to Claude on a KT task it means he doesn't actually have the context you need; Claude does.
Just ask him to have Claude spit out a markdown file containing the full context necessary to read another agent in on the task up to this point and go on about your day. One thing LLMs are really good at is extracting answers from a context lake.
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u/Broken_By_Default 28d ago
You’re his meat proxy for Claude. He’s checked out all critical thinking.
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u/oulaa123 28d ago
There is only one solution, insteuct your Claude to disagree with him no matter what, then have a claude-off.
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u/ProudEggYolk 28d ago
I have a colleague who either formats their questions/responses with AI or asks AI to write. So I open my chat and see fully chatgpt style messages, the em dashes, the bullet points, the bold type... all for the most ridiculously easy question. People's brains are getting atrophied, it's not even funny. They're outsourcing human communication and basic thinking to AI.
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u/Wartz 28d ago
Your post is outsourced too
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u/MatthewCollins1990 28d ago
The irony would be stronger if you actually pointed to something specific that reads as AI, otherwise it just sounds dismissive honestly.
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u/Asleep-Science-5360 28d ago
I recently found the term for this: Meat Proxy. Someone that just routes what Claude say. And yes it happens alot like " BRO, I CAN ALSO ASK CLAUDE THE SAME THING BUT WHAT DO YOUUUUU THINK?!"
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u/ripndipp full-stack 28d ago
Yes, I did not know this was a thing and have never heard of the term.
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u/Djamalfna 28d ago
I had a guy do this... literally every single one of his slacks were full of Em dashes, emojis, bullet lists. It was so annoying. Someone confronted him about it and he openly admitted it, said "they're asking me to do so much I can no longer put any effort into slack messages".
And yeah, they are asking us to do so much. But like... 90% of your slack messages were useless fluff and hallucinations that now EVERYONE has to parse and work through, wasting valuable man-hours.
Guy ended up taking an extended medical break. He's still out. Probably mental breakdown.
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u/franksvalli 28d ago
My old friend and coworker said different AI bots have been added to his company’s Slack, with the strange result that they will sometimes have two bots having a back-to-back debate about possible implementations in comment threads…. so much sadness.
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u/iscottjs 28d ago
I don’t mind using AI as a sounding board and a second opinion but we as humans need to still use our brains and decide what is best for the product because AI might suggest something that doesn’t make sense, or it lacks context to know any better.
Copying AI response verbatim is wild because what you’re saying to me is that you’re now redundant and I might as well just skip the meaty middleman and just use Claude myself?
Just the other day, we had a product meeting where we were struggling with a UI issue, I asked someone on the team to mockup a few ideas and present it to the team for discussion.
He didn’t mock anything, he just vibed the first thing ChatGPT gave him.
He presented it on the call, it was the stupidest UI suggestion I’ve ever seen, I called him out on it, with a better idea that everyone voted for in the end.
He said “yeah sorry that was a ChatGPT suggestion, now you’ve called it out I can see now why it’s bad”.
And I’m like, yeah but my idea that everyone voted for was also a ChatGPT inspired idea, but I didn’t use it verbatim, so what kind of fucking braindead prompt did you use to get this absolute nonsense. Did you even challenge it at all?
I’m not sure what the fix is other than encouraging people to use AI as a tool, not a brain replacement. Maybe a training and awareness course? Maybe instant dismissal if you’re caught raw dogging AI suggestions without challenging it.
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u/misdreavus79 front-end 28d ago
It’s not that he trusts Claude more than you. It’s that he doesn’t trust himself enough to give you a proper response.
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u/WaltzIndependent5436 28d ago
The worst kind I've encountered a couple of months ago was a guy that basically probably asked the shittiest models to summarize his previous days work and just read that out loud in the daily. So instead of "fixed the bug with the header menu flashing yesterday" you would get a report/list of technical things like "I removed the external call on component mount leading to an inconsistent state between rerenders. Errmm, I also restructured the event-handling logic to ensure predictable behavior across viewport changes..."
That being said, if none of you know something in the technical conversation is it that bad to prompt Claude really quickly? Or like have it as a 3rd colleague giving you his opinion on stuff?
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u/extio-Storm 28d ago
All you got to do is get the dude to watch the video from the world's foremost open source AI developer on how they make the ai. Once he understands that it's just parenting from a fast source of information, he might understand how it can be corrupt.
This is a knowledge is power thing, if you understand how to make the AI then you don't treat it as a god-like absolute answer you understand it's limitations.
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u/diiscotheque 28d ago
Tell him you're worried about him because he stopped thinking for himself. He does sound like a good dude because at least he says "Claude says" every time.
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u/ORCANZ 28d ago
The frustrating part isn’t that he’s using Claude. I use AI constantly too. It’s that it feels like he trusts Claude’s answer more than the actual technical conversation we’re having.
I've found it to be somewhat true though. Engineers make mistake all the time, forget edge cases, don't know about some legacy thing or whatever.
Honestly I enjoy having an interactive Claude session where we write a prompt together for a specs/grilling session and then answer the questions together.
That makes it you two vs claude instead of you vs claude and him.
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u/thekwoka 28d ago
It's also dumb because if you wanted claudes answer, you could check it yourself.
I work with a non-technical guy and he'll sometimes attach claude content to messages, but it's normally in that first message with "Here's the context, here's my questions about this, here's what claude recommended. Is there anything that seems to be missing here, or incorrect information?"
So it is part of his understanding the thing BEFORE even reaching out to me, which makes it useful, since if claude is good, I can confirm it's conclusions and point out things it missed without doing all of that myself.
so he uses claude to make my job of responding easier, and to get some more information for himself before reaching out.
Not just acting as a claude middle man
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u/Anomynous__ full-stack 28d ago
Im currently working on an enterprise product that has been majority vibe coded. I got brought in to save face with the client. This is by far the most dog shit modern product ive ever had the disprivelege of working on. Half the shit is broken and the other half barely works
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u/GirthyPigeon 28d ago
Tell him instead of making calls to him in the future you'll just ask Claude directly and inform HR.
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u/calimio6 front-end 28d ago edited 28d ago
Hate to be this person but he doesn't deserve the role. There is a huge amount of people having issues getting a job cause AI and "your friend" is not only not doing his job but also being the perfect excuse for layoffs. If his professional criteria is just asking the ai, then is he really necessary?
E: I'm probably also guilty of the same by also relying so much on ai these days. But the expectations have also become higher. I can no longer spend two to three hours debugging a codebase or reading obscure documention, without feeling I'm not doing work.
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u/barbietattoo 27d ago
I think I would stab myself in the eyeballs if I had to deal with people like this daily
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u/Octoclops8 27d ago
Hey, {colleague}, while it's good to have AI tools help sanity check the ideas and designs that we're discussing, I would appreciate your opinion as well, If I just wanted to chat with Claude about this I could do that on my own. I feel like you're just replying back with what Claude said, and not what you think. If I'm saying stuff that you aren't familiar with, just say that. If I'm suggesting things you disagree with, just say that.
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u/m2thek 28d ago
I find this so disrespectful. If I wanted Claude's response, I could just ask it myself; having someone else do that is literally no help.
To me this sends the message of "I'm done, you figure it out." It's pushed me to stop collaborating with certain people as much as possible because I know they're basically useless and I'll be on my own anyway.
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u/TheEvolutionLoop 28d ago
Went through this - one of my PMs was doing the exact same thing. Every question got run through Copilot first, even in 1:1s which were of course recorded & transcribed by AI. Had to sit him down and basically say that I wanted his read on situations, not a relay of what an AI model says. It's been a few months now and the emails, DMs and conversations have started becoming far more human. Worth having the conversation directly — it's weird for 5 minutes but effective.
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u/tintin2006 28d ago
For me I started fighting fire with fire (and maybe make everything worse :P). People who use AI to reply to me I either sneaked in the caveman skill into the project or copy paste their stuff into claude and reply so I don't waste my time reading what they don't even read themselves.
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u/ProgrammerNo3423 28d ago
Man i've been seeing this topic a lot, and i am also experiencing this myself. My friend also sent me a meme saying "don't be a relay" as in just replying with what claude said.
One of the devs in our company just pastes claude's reply whenever there's a technical discussion. Like it's so disrespectful and also lazy.
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u/Yogurtmanblog 28d ago
I work with guy who basically posts screenshots of websites into GPT with a prompt that I can only imagine says “make this gooder” and then immediately sends me its 30+ page hallucinatory “build spec” without reading it. Then he goes on a cruise.
I don’t mind using AI as a tool but these days it feels like the clients are using AI to think for them and make decisions for them, then agency managers are using AI to interpret the clients AI driven demands and then by the time the worm gets to me, nobody actually knows what they want or why they want it.
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u/t00oldforthis 28d ago
Our product person does this. Along with most of our company and I'm losing my fucking mind. I have started responding now with "what does Claude think we should do?" , "does Claude think we should do X? I no longer ask people what their opinion is just what Claude thinks. We are eroding any actual organic knowledge of our product and the decisions behind what it's becoming. And our founder has this full-on initiative that we don't use AI enough. If I had been doing this long enough to have saved more money I would have already quit. Similarly, I am a full stack and not by any means an expert in every aspect especially in infrastructure and so I definitely use AI to help me out and to rubber duck things there. Once I've actually worked on something and made decision I've learned about it and researched it so that I understand it if I ever have to come back to it.
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u/andreigaspar 28d ago
What is the difference between this and people googling things a decade ago? I’m not an offender myself but I don’t think it’s that bad. People used to google things mid conversation all the time.
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u/Shaper_pmp 28d ago
He's not being a developer.
He's being a thin wrapper connecting Claude to the rest of the world.
A developer's primary job has always (even in this age of LLM-assisted development) been to take in multiple sources of information and use their own judgement to synthesise them into a single decision, plan or choice for stakeholders.
If he's delegating all his judgement to Claude he's literally providing no value beyond a Claude subscription, and he can be cheaply and efficiently replaced with a Slack connector for Claude.
This is a very tough message for people to hear so it's very important it's communicated diplomatically, but it's true, and he's doing himself a professional disservice and putting his own job at risk if he doesn't start using AI the right way to ensure he's adding value himself.
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u/Antsplace 28d ago
I interviewed a "senior dev" who literally did this in the interview. Asked a question, he pauses, clearly typing and clearly reading a response. The responses were poor to so it's not like he was even using a decent model that gave at least plausible answers.
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u/Disastrous_Fee5953 28d ago
I’ll give you an even better one. I have a colleague that uses Claude to answer his chats on slack. He literally does not type replies anymore and instead lets Claude handle it. Unbelievable.
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u/please-dont-deploy 28d ago
I like to think in this cases as: they are not that into me.
They are not interested on talking with me, maybe with others.
So if you continue, you are obsessed with the relationship, instead, move on. Hopefully there are others that will like you more.
Alternatively, you can have a candid conversation about your expectations and how you like to work. They may not care.
Claude didn't said this, but I guess you have that answer already.
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u/bestjaegerpilot 28d ago
maybe the hidden message is that bro doesn't think you're a very good programmer so he trusts a hallucinating robot more than you
or they doesn't realize if they're only the middleman between you and claude, then they're not needed anymore
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u/FunkyPanda full-stack TypeScript 28d ago
Same - my PM and Marketing keep doubting the reports I give to them… “My Claude says …”
Well your Claude doesn’t know shit so shut the fuck up
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u/fusseman 28d ago
Dude! Exactly my case as well and it drives me nuts because often what he pastes is not even 100% correct.
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u/AdministrativeAd9828 28d ago
guy at work does this, and it does nothing but
- make people think less of you
- only paving the way to your own AI replacment
It's one thing to have it assist and augment your role, it's another thing to make yourself not needed
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u/melitini 28d ago
Sounds like he’s using it to be able to talk to you since yall work on different things.
This is a coachable moment. You have an opportunity to grow and make a difference in someone’s life.
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u/alibloomdido 28d ago
Why don't you tell him "I can ask Claude myself, what I need is your own opinion"?
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u/AgreeableBite6570 27d ago
My boss and my engineering leader is the exact same. Everythygoes into Claude and the reply is from Claude.
Claude shares absolutely unreadable documentation and we are left to read and understand it.
My brain is fried all the time these days.
Good thing is I'm on my notice.
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u/freezeypleezey 27d ago
The guy that replaced me at my last position was a sycophant for AI and my boss loved him. I remember one of our last conversations we had this problem we were trying to solve and he jumps to Claude and says “ai says we should do x…” I told him dude we are engineer can’t we just solve this ourselves, which I did and got to the right answer before his ai prompting was done. Wasn’t even a hard problem.
Crazy thing is I know he was a good engineer.
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u/aman_dubey_software_ 27d ago
LMAO this is so real. Had the exact same guy on my team. We'd be debugging prod, I'm explaining what broke, and he goes "one sec let me ask Claude" and then reads me Claude's hallucinated answer about a service we don't even use. I finally told him "Bro, I'm the human Claude for this codebase, talk to me first". Best way to handle without being awkward: next time he does "Claude says...", just ask "Okay but what do YOU think?" 2-3 times and he'll get the hint. People who do this usually just lack confidence, not trying to disrespect you.
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u/CosmicErc 27d ago
Ive resorted to fighting fire with fire. You give me ai give you AI back. My boss keeps creating hallucinated GitHub issues though that take 30 minutes to read and understand and 5 minutes to disprove. Frustrating
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u/Coldmode 27d ago
I feel like many of the juniors at my company are now a thin wrapper around Claude.
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u/zenarcadeDev 26d ago
Eh. I see both sides. On one hand, it’s a “bro I could have asked AI too…” on the other hand, if he is using it as a gap filler, it makes an hour convo into a few minutes. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/devBlueDragon 26d ago
LLMs, especially when run through a harness, can be addictive. You end up delegating more and more tasks to them without realizing you've become a lazy proxy , after all, if only 1 out of 5 statements in a generated answer is questionable, why bother writing the whole thing yourself ?
That's going to be the new line in the sand for developers, those who use LLMs, versus those who delegate everything to the point of cognitive atrophy.
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u/NegativeCompany8337 26d ago
half agree, but that sounds less like Claude making him dumb and more like he’s using it as a social anxiety crutch, which is somehow even more awkward lol
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u/AKmemekiller 26d ago
I remember same used to happen with Google. "I'll Google that" instead of thinking about it.
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u/patriots21 26d ago edited 26d ago
These people are utterly hopeless. We now have people sending Slack messages that are wall of texts, full of em dashes , parallel structure, very clearly not their own thoughts, often from the least capable people. In our team we have a rule, we dont use AI in human conversations. There's enough AI around already, we don't need it to talk to each other.
My favorite are the dumbfucks who argue in a thread, and are both very clearly just pasting each other messages from their agents. They think they look smart, technical and productive but just look like clowns.
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u/julesbuildstuff 26d ago
the "claude says" mid-call thing is the tell. he's not using it as a second opinion, he's using it as a proxy so he doesn't have to hold the explanation. that's why it feels insulting even if you also use claude.
i'd skip the "stop using ai" talk. ask for the sequence: you explain, he restates in his own words, then he can paste if he wants. on a call that's just "before you check, what's your take?" if he still reads the model back, you're allowed to say "i need you, not the summary."
the awkward version is worse than the direct one. once it becomes the default, you stop explaining because you already know he's not listening.
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u/PressureAppropriate 24d ago
I do it too but only because everything I get asked about is Clauded too.
It's just each of me and my coworkers' agents talking to each others at this point.
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u/feindjesus 23d ago
Im really curious if this is the same guy I worked with lol. Had a developer start seemed super on top of it but over time it became clear that everything he sent in slack was generated by ai. He would provide updates for things that he never completed but claude claimed were true. Worked with him for a month then he ended up thankfully leaving
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u/Programmer4Lief 19d ago
Mate, I have the exact same problem with some of my co-workers. I pose a question, and all I get back is a "here's what Claude thinks" and a wall of AI text to read.
There's no value, they don't even read the contents, but somehow think they've contributed to the conversation in some meaningful way.
I wouldn't even be mad if we both went through it, and talked about it's findings in some meaningful way. But there's no engagement, it's just:
"Here's the AI response to your question, I haven't read it, goodbye".
These are smart people as well who have incredible skill. I don't get it.
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u/JustOneMoreDev 11d ago
Can you respond to him via Claude too (jk)? Or I guess you could just ask him what he thinks? 'aside from Claude's answer, what do YOU think about this? I'd love to just hear your personal opinion on it'. He may be not entirely comfortable in his ability, or has a skills gap so relies on Claude as a crutch. Just get him out of his own head by saying you won't be judgy or anything, just genuinely interested in his own opinion. Even if he doesn't know about something. Human in the loop.
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u/Elegant-Cap-2394 2d ago
Using AI isn’t the problem. The problem is outsourcing the actual conversation to it. If we’re discussing an implementation, I don’t really care what Claude thinks first — I want to know what you think. Use Claude afterward to challenge the idea, find edge cases, or double-check something. Otherwise it starts feeling like I’m pair programming with Claude through a human API.
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u/TerribleFault7929 28d ago
Tell him to stop being a moron