Essay argues “ask an LLM” has become an unhelpful reflex when people seek experienced human judgment

The author says experts and peers increasingly respond to difficult, context-heavy questions by telling them to ask Claude or another LLM. But they had often already done that, and were seeking human judgment shaped by experience, taste, and hard-earned mistakes rather than another synthesized answer.

The piece highlights a growing etiquette gap around AI: models are useful first-pass tools, but they do not replace trust-based conversations or domain intuition. As LLMs become default infrastructure, people may need clearer norms for when to use AI assistance and when to offer personal expertise.