alt Hacker NewsI bet a huge amount of that is on your head, or if it is factual, a function of a toxic work culture where people are primarily incentivized to "outperform one another" rather than arrive at collaborative solutions.
The wealthy/owner class once again consume all of us -- here through AI -- because we cannot agree to work together.
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Many companies, including in their software development functions, are oral cultures rather than literate cultures.
"Collaboration" is bullshit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484519
No. It is a well established fact that the majority of users will not read documentation of any kind. This is not a new observation, it's been a meme in developer circles from the first day computers showed up in the workplace.
You can step off your high horse now.
This was also my first thought when reading the title: because Claude is a tool you use and co-workers are either competitors or people preferably dependent.. an anti-pattern and not good culture but sadly the norm.
That's not to say that the help-vampires the parent mentions don't exist. I think we culturally are afraid of pushing back against them: telling them to RTFM and then come back.