“What ‘ask Claude’ doesn’t give me is the person’s specific, lived experience.”
“Ask Claude” is the new “just google it,” except worse, because it pretends a statistical average of internet text counts as an answer. Grauer’s point is simple: when you ask a question that needs someone’s specific, lived experience, the model hands you the median opinion scraped from a thousand strangers, not the one person who actually knows. The tell is that “ask an LLM” only gets suggested for questions that already survived contact with a model and came back useless. It’s a way to end a conversation, not answer one.