> Or should I act like I did it myself, appearing to have super-powers that I don't possess?

Do you tell people you used a hammer to hit the nails? Do you go out of your way to explain to people that you don’t use your bare, bleeding knuckles to punch in the nails?

Give people some credit and don’t treat them like idiots.

Also don’t treat your LLM as some “super-power”, it’s just a fancy hammer and still hits your fingers if you don’t know how to use it.

You still need to verify that the answer that Claude gave is not hallucinated. That will also cost you some more time.

If the answer is wrong and people trust your judgement, then they will take a lot longer to figure out, that your answer is not to be relied upon.

That's a very good question that I also don't have an answer to (yet). But I believe part of the reason for that is that were currently still in the middle of this shift, so there's issues of both knowledge about AI and how people relate to it. And of course there's so many different situations here.

Your non-technical parents ask you a question? Use the best tool for the job (might be Claude), then just help them with the task.

Talking to a friend looking for genuine advice? Maybe show them how you use Claude while also answering the actual question.

A lazy person trying to make you do their work? Don't become their Claude interface.

Someone asking a question but actually just trying to open up a conversation? Maybe check-in what their intention behind the question is, and if it's indeed conversation / exploration, leave the phone in your pocket and do that.

If they continue doing this, delay your responses and keep them short. Don't spend more time on the response than they did on the question.

There are typically middle paths, like pointing where they should look approximately (if you are an expert on a project, you typically have a better idea where to look). And then they can look or point their agents at it, or whatever they prefer.

>So how should I answer?

Like a human, not like a robot. Either just present them the answer or explain them how you got it.

In the past "RTFM" or "LGMTFY" have been responses, so why not something like, well, "I'm not aware of the top of my head, you afaik <brief explanation>. Also feel free to ask Claude on the technical details :)"

> Because it would take 15 minutes to find out the answer myself, and 3 minutes to let Claude find it, I ask Claude. So how should I answer?

"I don't know, I could google it or ask Claude for you, but you could do that yourself."

Because saying "I don't know" is a perfectly valid answer.

"Hey, here's what I found. By the way I used Claude to get this info. It might be worth trying that yourself if you have similar questions, it's quite good at this in my experience. Give it a go"

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

The problem with asking Claude (or any LLM) is that they will get things wrong much more often than a human, while sounding perfectly confident about the information. It's a recipe for disaster unless you're asking it about something where you have enough expertise to be able to sniff out the BS. So if people are asking you a question, that means they figure you're able to answer the question accurately. If you can do that with asking Claude then whatever, but the person asking you probably couldn't do the same. They would certainly get an answer, but they wouldn't be able to have confidence in its accuracy. You're providing value, even if it's not necessarily immediately obvious to you.