Comment by zzzeek

I deal with a lot of non-LLM users at work and quite often the conversation hits a dead end, where I'm like , ok but see, your app has this performance blockage due to your not having an index here - do some performance tests and you'll see (it was a hang caused by a FOR UPDATE locking the entire table due to lack of an index). And you can hear the pause (it's all over Slack) where they just aren't going there, because writing a performance suite for the issue in question would be a lot of effort to do by hand and in the "before times" would be a difficult undertaking to justify. Because they don't consider an LLM, a task they most certainly should be doing becomes a non starter. Never mind my own Claude had a whole plan ready to go to do this whole suite for them in about five minutes so they could study the impact of the index, but I really didn't want to just go ahead and do this all for them. At some point your non-LLM coworkers need to stare directly at work we'd never be willing to do before that's now trivial, and in fact is now part of the job.