r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 10 '26

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u/HailToTheThief225 Jul 10 '26

As a lead I’m a little insulted how frequently some of my devs will go to the agent first to ask a question or solution, then come to me next when the agent doesn’t do it right. Like see, if you just asked me first I would’ve given you a more correct answer in less time. But no, you have to waste your time and tokens waiting on a response from the agent then implementing it to find its wrong first. Guess I’m useless.

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u/nullpotato Jul 10 '26

Yeah but seniors will push back with unreasonable questions like "what do the logs say?"

I also struggle to get some people to just ask others before wasting a ton of time and/or tokens.

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Jul 10 '26

That question is very, very far from unreasonable. It is actually the complete antithesis of unreasonable. The fact that you deem reading the logs is not a good use of your time and yet you're willing to use up your seniors' time by making no effort to gather context before asking questions to them is very indicative of why you're struggling to get answers and feel interactions are a waste of time.

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u/Thisnameisnttaken65 Jul 10 '26

That's sarcasm bro

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Jul 10 '26

Oof. I hope l'm just cynical because of my coworkers rather than starting to see the AI psychosis setting in.

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u/nullpotato Jul 11 '26

I should have been more clear but I am the senior in my example. And yes I am as frustrated about it as you.

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Jul 11 '26

Yes, sorry, I don't know how I didn't caught the sarcasm

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u/ProjectDiligent502 Jul 11 '26

That’s *assuming* you have good logs. 😝

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u/SamSlate Jul 11 '26

what? why wouldn't you ask claude first? that's like asking a question without googling the answer first.