[dboreham]

I'm not sure about this. I think it's much the same as when you work in an organization comprising humans, and many of them are not so right about everything. Perhaps this will be familiar :)

I've noticed that Claude with the current model can act most of the time like a trusted senior engineer sounding board for me. However on occasions we disagree. Recently we had a stand up argument about a proposed solution to a potential security risk in a system. I realized Claude had taken on a kind of "corporate culture" thinking on the problem (which was to do with use of a vault/broker to hold user credential data) that would be appropriate in some contexts, but wasn't in ours. The experience was totally like arguing with someone on the corporate Slack, but in the end I control what gets deployed so I won. But I'd say 90% of the time I get as much value out of Claude on these discussions as I would if I knew one competent person for each of the subjects we discuss, and had called that person for advice. Of course even though my network is...vast...I just don't know a competent person in every single field.