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> Replying with "ask Claude" feels to me like admitting you've lost control over the subject matter Huh, what if I don't want to spend time answering a low-eff

by amelius 4mo ago

> Replying with "ask Claude" feels to me like admitting you've lost control over the subject matter Huh, what if I don't want to spend time answering a low-effort question? I will have a look if the default answers/approaches don't work.

anon7000 4mo ago
Then don’t answer it? Or just give a seconds worth of context into why you think it’s not important?
- peteforde 4mo ago
  Context switches are not free. Dozens of "quick questions" over the course of a day will drag down your productivity to about one third or worse. I know that for me, it takes about 45 minutes of focus to enter a flow state, when I'm at my most productive. If I can never enter the zone, then I'm not really doing the thing that made me such a valuable player in the first place, am I?
  - mcv 4mo ago
    He scheduled a call specifically to ask this question. What does context switching have to do with anything? Don't accept the call if you can't afford to switch context.
    - peteforde 4mo ago
      I wish I was there with you to witness the look on your face as you slowly begin to realize that something as simple as a call can and often will absolutely pull you out of the flow state. Someone sneezing nearby can pull you out of the flow state. The idea that the onus is on the person who you're trying to distract to distract themselves to tell you not to distract them is just so broken if you think about it even just a little bit.
mcv 4mo ago
What is low effort about "I asked him where he'd look, personally, for the answer to a hard question I was chasing, one without industry consensus. Not what the textbook says. If five studies conflicted, which would he trust? I wanted the thing 30 years had taught him that a search engine couldn't."? He checked the consensus, the textbook, and 5 studies. He's asking for an answer from experience and he gets "Ask Claude". But even if you don't know, "I don't know" is a better answer than "Ask Claude", which blindly assumes that the asker hadn't thought of that, which is a weird thing to assume.

by amelius 4mo ago

anon7000 4mo ago

Then don’t answer it? Or just give a seconds worth of context into why you think it’s not important?

peteforde 4mo ago
Context switches are not free. Dozens of "quick questions" over the course of a day will drag down your productivity to about one third or worse. I know that for me, it takes about 45 minutes of focus to enter a flow state, when I'm at my most productive. If I can never enter the zone, then I'm not really doing the thing that made me such a valuable player in the first place, am I?
- mcv 4mo ago
  He scheduled a call specifically to ask this question. What does context switching have to do with anything? Don't accept the call if you can't afford to switch context.
  - peteforde 4mo ago
    I wish I was there with you to witness the look on your face as you slowly begin to realize that something as simple as a call can and often will absolutely pull you out of the flow state. Someone sneezing nearby can pull you out of the flow state. The idea that the onus is on the person who you're trying to distract to distract themselves to tell you not to distract them is just so broken if you think about it even just a little bit.

mcv 4mo ago

What is low effort about "I asked him where he'd look, personally, for the answer to a hard question I was chasing, one without industry consensus. Not what the textbook says. If five studies conflicted, which would he trust? I wanted the thing 30 years had taught him that a search engine couldn't."? He checked the consensus, the textbook, and 5 studies. He's asking for an answer from experience and he gets "Ask Claude". But even if you don't know, "I don't know" is a better answer than "Ask Claude", which blindly assumes that the asker hadn't thought of that, which is a weird thing to assume.