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chatmastatoday at 7:56 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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jrockwaytoday at 7:59 PM

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.

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nkrisctoday at 8:00 PM

They likely haven’t read it either, so they’ll never know you didn’t as well.