alt Hacker News>>I'm not against fact checking, but it absolutely felt like a punch in the gut coming from a non-dev. There was no "trust" there. She couldn't rely on my expertise, she had to go back to her "source of truth" (Claude) and asked for a second opinion on something that she wouldn't be able to verify.
This is probably how physicians feel when informed patients (whether using LLMs or not) ask questions (good or bad) during their patient encounters.
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Doctor:
I don’t mind the questions. I mind the assertions of fact.
This is a different situation. A doctor is a domain expert, but you are in possession of vastly more empirical data about your specific body. Getting to a good result is going to be easier with collaboration, rather than one of you confidently telling the other what the problem/solution is.
I would love to be able to trust that a doctor knows more about my problem than I do, but every time I see one they clearly haven't even read the information I just told the nurse 15 minutes ago.