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What is your relationship to this team? Their manager? A senior colleague? Something about this sounds like a failure of communication or leadership. Why are you stand offish from them? Why are you treating them like children? If they don't know what they're doing why did you hire them? Now that you did why are you treating them like a burden and not an opportunity to mentor, teach, and uplift?

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You can't force someone to improve themselves. AI-fueled ego trips are really difficult to sublimate. The only viable solution in this case is to overwhelm the pupil with mastery. Demonstrate that even without AI assistance that you can run circles around their solutions. If someone actually came to me and asked for advice on something, I cannot imagine I would turn it down. Many developers are absolute monsters. Pretending like that is not the case only makes the whole thing worse.

I also read that comment as an adversarial situation at work.

It used to be that when someone else at your company was asking for something that wasn't a priority, you would erect bureaucratic roadblocks to protect your time. Now, the new normal is to just forward their questions to AI and sling the slop back over to them.

Someone outside the team "giving you a solution" is seldom a great thing in my experience

Seldom? There are a lot of solutions used everyday that are great and better than the alternative of building it yourself

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