Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM: The Cost of Deflecting Human Experience

Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

When I reach out to experienced colleagues for answers that survived my own LLM experiments, they often just redirect me back to Claude. This deflection feels like a polite way to say they don't know or lack time, but it withholds the specific, lived wisdom that only decades of real-world scars can provide. While tools are great for consensus, they cannot replace the unique perspective of a trusted human mentor.

"What 'ask Claude' doesn't give me is the person's specific, lived experience. That's the thing that's hard to write down and even harder to search for."