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> ask Claude if it makes sense to do X

This is a fantastic way of working with agents in my experience. It's like have a peer architect who can challenge you and help you improve. You're projecting your own feelings and fears by calling it infantalizing.

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There is a world of difference between using it as a "peer architect" and outsourcing your entire thought process to it.

You're treating asking questions on everything as "outsourcing your entire thinking". It isn't.

This engineer would not do anything without asking the AI first. This includes extremely basic activities type hinting a function that takes a string and returns a string, which I know he knew how to do.

Sorry mate, but if that isn't outsourcing one's thinking then we live in different realities.

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