Yael Grauer

Grauer's essay names the moment exactly: a mentor she'd built up over years waved her toward a chatbot instead of sharing the judgment he'd use himself. She says she'd already asked twice.

The 105-comment thread split between engineers who called the redirect disrespectful and others who defended it as an earned shortcut, until one open-source maintainer admitted Claude would likely nail 98% of his own advice anyway.